From IWRM back to integrated water resources management

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dc.creatorGiordano, Mark
dc.creatorShah, Tushaar
dc.date2014-07-03
dc.date2015-03-17T14:39:52Z
dc.date2015-03-17T14:39:52Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:42:23Z
dc.descriptionIntegrated water resources management provides a set of ideas to help us manage water more holistically. However, these ideas have been formalized over time in what has now become, in capitals, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), with specific prescriptive principles whose implementation is often supported by donor funding and international advocacy. IWRM has now become an end in itself, in some cases undermining functioning water management systems, in others setting back needed water reform agendas, and in yet others becoming a tool to mask other agendas. Critically, the current monopoly of IWRM in global water management discourse is shutting out alternative thinking on pragmatic solutions to existing water problems. This paper explains these issues and uses examples of transboundary water governance in general, groundwater management in India and rural–urban water transfer in China to show that there are (sometimes antithetical) alternatives to IWRM which are being successfully used to solve major water problems. The main message is that we should simply get on with pragmatic politics and solutions to the world’s many individual water challenges.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/58364
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/163226
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceGiordano, Mark; Shah, Tushaar. 2014. From IWRM back to integrated water resources management. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 30(3):364-376. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2013.851521
dc.subjectwater management
dc.subjectinternational waters
dc.subjectwater governance
dc.subjectwater allocation
dc.subjectwater rates
dc.subjectgroundwater management
dc.subjectriver basins
dc.titleFrom IWRM back to integrated water resources management
dc.typeJournal Article

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