GWP document raises issue of multiple-use supply systems

Like many international policy and resource documents, the Global Water Partnership’s publications on Integrated Water Resources Management have given lots of space to productive uses (like field-scale irrigation) and domestic uses, but not much to the overlaps between these sectors. Interestingly therefore, a recent report raised the following question as an issue on reducing poverty: how to expand access to water for productive uses – for example through groundwater development, affordable small-scale technologies, and multiple-use supply systems?

Read more in Global Water Partnership. 2004. Catalyzing change: a handbook for developing integrated water resources management (IWRM) and water efficiency strategies. Technical Committee of the Global Water Partnership with support from Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Stockholm: Global Water Partnership www.gwpforum.org/gwp/library/Handbook.pdf