This brief outlines why water is important to achieve the MDGs and how it should be managed to this end. Specifically, it explains why IWRM has been adopted by the international community and how it can contribute to meeting the MDGs. Policy briefs provide policy makers with information on water resources management. They are written by the GWP Technical Committee, a group of internationally recognised professionals in integrated water resources management.
This Policy Brief summarizes the key messages towards the Rio+20 Conference. These messages derive from GWP work and experiences and include: the crucial role of water as a key driver in the green economy, the need for building more effective institutions to manage water better, especially at transboundary level, the ongoing need for integrated approaches, ensuring water security for the economy, for society and for the environment, and the political leadership and vision essential for overcoming fragmentation.
The Spanish version.
This brief outlines why water is important to achieve the MDGs and how it should be managed to this end. Specifically, it explains why IWRM has been adopted by the international community and how it can contribute to meeting the MDGs. However an IWRM approach will support not just achievement of the MDGs but also the long-term economic development, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability that will be needed to sustain that achievement.
The Spanish version.
An IWRM strategy can be a useful tool for addressing specific development challenges and optimizing water’s contribution to achieving social, economic and environmental goals. It is not just about water. Other sectors have a stake too, and as competition for water increases along with population, climate change and pollution of useable supplies, policymakers in other sectors should be taking an active interest in how water decisions are made, as well as how their own decision-making impacts their country’s water resources.
The Spanish version.
Данное резюме дополняет серию политических и технических резюме, подготовленных, чтобы помочь странам в их усилиях по выполнению задач, сформулированных на Всемирном саммите по устойчивому развитию (2002 г.) по подготовке стратегии эффективного использования водных ресурсов и национальных планов ИУВР.
Политическое резюме основывается на обобщении имеющейся литературы. В частности, в резюме цитируются положения статьи «Институциональные реформы в водном секторе: теория и практика», подготовленной Р. Салехом и А. Динаром и опубликованной в Сборнике «Водная политика». Также рассматриваются идеи, высказанные на семинаре, организованного для «мозговой атаки» в декабре 2006 года в Коломбо, и на семинаре, проведенном в Стокгольме в рамках Всемирной недели воды в 2007 году с участием GWP,IWMIиSIWI.