Integrated Water Resource Management

As defined by the Global Water Partnership, integrated water resource management is 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. Resources available within this theme provide guidance on how to conserve and restore watersheds, reduce pollution, adapt to climate change and reduce risks from floods and droughts.

Integrated Water Resource Management Resources

Managing to Avoid Crisis: a Look At Water Management Efforts in Rural Arizona

Published: 
September 18, 2014
Offers insight into how to effectively manage water resources in rural and urban areas of Arizona. While the Groundwater Management Act (GMA) provides a framework for active management areas, it does not address the need for rural areas of the state to develop and implement long-term water plans...Read more

How Water Management in Tucson, Arizona Has Affected the Desert's Landscape

Published: 
October 18, 2014
The National Institutes for Water Resources
Tuscan, Arizona has relied heavily on groundwater to supply its water needs. Over time, the pumping associated with residential, agricultural and industrial water use has outstripped nature's ability to replenish the underground aquifers. To reduce the overdraft of groundwater in the Tuscan...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Why the Groundwater Management Act?

Published: 
October 18, 2014
The National Institutes for Water Resources
Groundwater is being pumped from aquifers faster than it is able to be naturally replenished. The Groundwater Management Act (GMA) was established by the Arizona State legislature to regulate groundwater use and determine a safe yield goal for recharge of water and recovery.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Jordan: Complex Crises Fund (CCF) Mid-Cycle Portfolio Review (MPR)

Published: 
March 18, 2014
U.S. Agency for International Development
Responding to potential instability resulting from increasing populations of Syrian refugees in the Jordan's Northern Governorates of Irbid and Mafraq, USAID Jordan received $20 Million in resources from the Complex Crises Fund (CCF) to support Phase II implementation of the Community Based...Read more
Regional focus: 
JordanMiddle East and North Africa

Arizona Rural Water Issues Attracting Attention: What Is Best Plan for Managing Non-Active Management Areas?

Published: 
March 18, 2014
The National Institutes for Water Resources
Water management involves more than just the hydrological process. Successful water management should reflect the physical, social and cultural characteristics unique to the area. In Arizona, urban water affairs are recognized as a priority, however rural regions are often overlooked, which has...Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Final Report, June 1988 to May 1991: The Importance of Mangroves in Sustaining Fisheries and Controlling Water Quality in Coastal Ecosystems

U.S. Agency for International Development
This final report describes an ecosystem analysis of Guayas River estuary, Ecuador, along with ecological studies in Terminos Lagoon, Mexico, to quantify the function of mangroves in different environmental settings. Mangroves may provide food and habitat to a variety of trophic levels, as well as...Read more
Regional focus: 
EcuadorLatin America and the Caribbean

Climate Change and Conflict in Africa and Latin America: Findings and Preliminary Lessons from Uganda, Ethiopia, and Peru; African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC)

Published: 
July 18, 2014
U.S. Agency for International Development
In 2007, the Fourth Annual Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that rising global temperatures would contribute to a steady upsurge in severe storms, floods, droughts, glacier melt, and sea level rise. Since then, extreme and erratic weather in much...Read more
Regional focus: 
Sub-Saharan Africa

Land Subsidence in the United States

Published: 
December 18, 2014
The National Institutes for Water ResourcesU.S. Department of the Interior
Publication is one in a series of fact sheets that describe ground-water-resource issues across the United States, as well as some of the activities of the U.S. Geological Survey that provide information to help others develop, manage, and pretext ground-water resources in a sustainable manner.Read more
Regional focus: 
United StatesNorth America

Millennium Challenge Corporation Evaluation Catalog

Millennium Challenge Corporation
Millennium Challenge Corporation's Evaluation Catalog is home to metadata and eventually microdata from its rigorous independent evaluations.Read more
Regional focus: 
Global

Armenia - Water to Market Institutional Strengthening

Published: 
March 27, 2014
Millennium Challenge Corporation
The Water to Market Activity is divided into two subactivities, the Improved Profitability of Water User Association Members Subactivity and the Institutional Strengthening Subactivity. The Institutional Strengthening Subactivity (ISSA) provided general technical support to water user associations...Read more
Regional focus: 
Armenia

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