Approaches to integrated water resource development and management

Jacob J. Burke

Natural Resources Forum, 1994, vol. 18, issue 3, 181-192

Abstract: In southern Africa institutional capacity in the water sector is severely limited by diminishing regular budget and external assistance allocations. The result has been an overall decline in operational water resource management. This is ironic given the international community's current concern with ‘integrated’ or ‘comprehensive’ water resources management. Often, so‐called integrated attempts at river basin planning and development have been conceived within the framework of a river basin authority or regional master plans. Such large‐scale attempts have not necessarily been compatible either with the national capacity in water resources management or the existing institutional and legislative frameworks. In many cases the actual integration of a basin's physical resources and social, economic and environmental demands is poorly executed. To examine a way forward in resolving what is clearly an unsustainable state of affairs, a diagnostic study of the Kafue Basin, Zambia, was carried out in order to identify a set of water resource management options for a basin currently under stress. A physical framework for the Kafue Basin was established and principal subcatchments and hydro‐geological subsystems identified. Current water resource issues in the basin are discussed and a multiobjective approach is proposed to allow intersectoral competition for the basin's limited water resources to be reconciled.

Date: 1994
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