fw.4 Water management futures
Unit Contents
- fw.4.1 Water management
- fw.4.2 Dam building
- fw.4.3 Integrated drainage basin management
- fw.4.4 Wetlands
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
- The growing importance of integrated drainage basin management (IDBM) plans, and the costs and benefits they bring
- Growing pressures on major wetlands and efforts to protect them, such as the Ramsar Convention
