fw.4 Water management futures

Unit Contents

Geographic inquiry: Future possibilities for management intervention in drainage basins

The importance of strengthening participation of local communities to improve water management in different economic development contexts, including sustainable water use and efficiency, and ensuring access to clean, safe and affordable water
Increased dam building for multipurpose water schemes, and their costs and benefits
- Case study of contemporary dam building expansion in one major drainage basin
The growing importance of integrated drainage basin management (IDBM) plans, and the costs and benefits they bring
- Case study of one recent IDBM plan
Growing pressures on major wetlands and efforts to protect them, such as the Ramsar Convention
- Case study of the future possibilities for one wetland area