IWRM

Question 1

Dublin principles (1992)

Answer 1

• Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain life, development and the environment
• Water development and management should be based on a participatory approach, involving users, planners and policy makers at all levels
• Women play a central part in the provision, management
  and safeguarding of water
• Water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognized as an economic good

Question 2

Essential Freshwater Principles

Answer 2

• Work with landowners, water users, Māori, communities ,
  and local government…
• Provide for flexibility and adaptability so that as
  knowledge and technology evolve and the climate
  changes , policy settings and rules can adapt
• Promote an integrated approach to freshwater
  management , within catchments, across issues, and with the marine and coastal environment