...following principles were enunciated at an international water conference in Dublin in 1992. • Freshwater 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,...

...action at local, national and international levels, based on four guiding principles. 161 Principle No. 1 Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource,...essential to sustain life, development and the environment Since water sustains life, effective management of water resources demands a holistic approach, linking...

...ecosystems. Effective management links land and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or aquifer. 2. Water development and management should be based...participatory approach, involving users, planners and policy makers at all levels The participatory approach involves raising awareness of the importance...

...for the Rio Agenda 21 and for the millenium Vision-to-Action. The four principles are: 1 Freshwater is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain life, development and the environment. ie one resource, to be holistically managed. : Water development and management should be based on...

...companies (however owned and managed) should be treated as commercial enterprises and, second, that water management should be based on a participatory approach involving users, planners and policy-makers (Nickson 1997, p. 166). Johnstone and Wood (2001 , p. 15) also suggest that NGOs and CBOs may become...

...principles - including the first authoritative statement on water as an economic good . • Principle 1: Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource...to sustain life, development and the environment; • Principle 2: Water development and management should be based on a participatory approach, involving...

...socio-economic development and for sound management of water resources. The Dublin principles are as follows: 1. Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource,...to sustain life, development, and the environment. 1965-73 1974_79 1980-85 1986-93 1990-94 1995-98Population growth rate 2.7 2.9 3.0 3.0 3.0 2.7 Growth...

...organisations, multilateral development agencies and others committed to the Dublin principles. They state that 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...

...principles, the source of integrated water resource management. The Dublin Principles recognize that fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential...to sustain life, development and the environment. This Principle calls for a holistic approach to water (respect for the hydrological boundaries), a...

...Dublin Statement set out recommendations for action, based on the following guiding principles: • 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,...