...vulnerable, and essential resource, which should be managed in an integrated manner. • Water resources development and management should be based on a participatory...users, planners, and policymakers, at all levels. • Women play a central role in the provision, management, and safeguarding of water. • Water has...

...management principles that have been the basis for much of the subsequent water sector reform: • 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,...

...on global good practice in water management based on the Dublin Principles (ICWE 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, planners,...

...Integrated water resources management is based on the four 1992 Dublin principles (UNEP, 1992): • "Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource,...to sustain life, development and the environment; 321 Women play a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of water; Water has an...

...SECTION: PAYING FOR NATURE'S SERVICES Water in a Sustainable Economy Box 8-3. The Dublin Principles 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...

...links land and water uses across the whole of a catchment area or ground water aquifer. Principle Two Water development and management should be based on...involving users, planners and policymakers at all levels. The participatory approach (see Appendix 2) involves raising awareness of the importance of water among...

...economic, social, environmental and political issues. Principle 2 of the Dublin Statement states that "water development and management should be based...involving users, planners and policy-makers at all levels" (ICWE, 1992). Within the context of IWRM, public participation implies that the general public is informed...

...Conference on Water and the Environment (Dublin, 1992), to revert the excessive consumption of water are: a) Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential...to sustain life, development and the environment. As such, its use requires an integrated focus on the social-economic development and protection of...

...resulting principles have served as a baseline for nearly all water meetings held since that time: (i) fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential...to sustain life, development and the environment, (ii) water development and management should be based on a participatory approach, involving users,...