IWRM

Year of publication: 2004

This Thematic Overview Paper (TOP) aims to point readers towards ways of adopting and benefiting from IWRM principles in the water supply and sanitation (WATSAN) sub-sector. The TOP is a digest of available guidance on IWRM in the WATSAN sector and its many links point readers to more detailed discussion of the brief points made.

The heart of the TOP is a distinction between “full” introduction of IWRM in a country and “light” implementation on a sub-sector by sub-sector basis. The concept of light introduction is intended to help overcome the huge institutional obstacles to full IWRM by encouraging individual sector agencies to adopt the basic IWRM principles in their own sectoral work, and in cross-sectoral contacts using existing structures, and to let the framework for fuller integration evolve through shared commitment.

The TOP is available in both on and offline versions. The online version – to which the five links at the bottom of this page will bring you – contains an extended executive summary of the TOP. The final link (Resources) will bring you to a series of annotated links that can serve as a jumping off point to further information and exploration. The offline version of the TOP containing the full text can be downloaded by clicking the ‘download’ link immediately below this paragraph.

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