M11 CONCEPTS

Question 1

means that all the different uses of water resources are considered together

Answer 1

Integrated Management

Question 2

Driving forces on water resources

Answer 2

• Population growth
• Urbanization
• Economic growth
• Globalizatoin of trade
• Climate Variability
• Climate Change

Question 3

• an empirical concept which is built up from the on-the-ground experience of practitioners,
• a flexible approach to water management that can adapt to diverse national and local contexts, thus
• it is not a scientific theory that needs to be proved or disproved by scholars.
• it requires policy-makers to make judgments about which set of suggestions, reform measures, management tools and institutional arrangements are most appropriate in a particular cultural, social, political, economic and environmental context.

Answer 3

Concept of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

Question 4

a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.

Answer 4

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)

Question 5

What are the four IWRM Principles

Answer 5

• Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource
• Water development and management should be based on a participatory approach
• Women play a central part in the provision, management and safe-guarding of water.
• Water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognized as an economic good as well as social good.

Question 6

What is the ultimate goal of IWRM

Answer 6

Water Security for All

Question 7

The capacity of a population to safeguard sustainable access to adequate quantities of acceptable quality water for sustaining livelihoods, human wellbeing, and socio-economic development, for ensuring protection against water-borne pollution and water-related disasters, and for preserving ecosystems in a clumate of peace and political stability

Answer 7

Water Security

Question 8

Five Dimensions of Water Security

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1. Household
2. Economies
3. Cities
4. Rivers
5. Communities

Question 9

• More coordinated development and management of:
  – Land and water
  – Surface water and ground water
  – Upstream and downstream interests

Answer 9

IWRM

Question 10

Three Pillars of IWRM

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1. Enabling environment
2. Institutional framework
3. Management instruments

Question 11

• associated implementation rules and regulations 1979
• presently in discussion

Answer 11

Water Code 1976

Question 12

• describes Planning Process
• specifies 4 sustainable outcomes

Answer 12

National IWRM Plan Framework 2017

Question 13

• provides a framework for managing and developing river basins sustainably

Answer 13

National Integrated River Basin Management and Development Framework Plan 2006

Question 14

IWRM Planning Guidelines

Answer 14

1. Inception
2. Situation Analysis
3. Strategy Building
4. Action Planning
5. Implementation

Question 15

Four Phases of IWRM

the phase in which the stakeholders generate a common level of knowledge about the subject

Answer 15

Common Knowledge

Question 16

Four Phases of IWRM

the phase in which the various views of the stakeholders are expressed

Answer 16

Divergence

Question 17

Four Phases of IWRM

the phase in which by means of analysis and discussion a common view is developed on how to proceed

Answer 17

Convergence

Question 18

Four Phases of IWRM

formalization of that common view at decision making level

Answer 18

Decision Making