Capacity Building for Integrated Water Resources Management
Southeast Asia
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South East Asia Regional Network for Capacity Building in IWRM

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  • Training of Trainers Course: Grounwater Management in IWRM, 23-27 August 2010 (2010-07-01)
    In many countries, groundwater is of vital importance for the livelihood and health of the people since it is often the main source for domestic water. It is also widely used for irrigated agriculture and industry. This is particularly true in dry regions where surface water is scarce or seasonal, and in rural areas with dispersed populations. Climate change is likely to lead to a greater dependence on groundwater as a cushion against drought and increasing uncertainty in surface water availability.

    There is widespread recognition that water resources, including groundwater, are coming under pressure from increasing demand and declining yields. Water supply systems have often been developed in an unsustainable way, threatening vital social and economic developments. As a result many governments have been reforming water resources management to adopt the approach known as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).

    One important issue has been the inadequate attention to groundwater management within the reforms towards an IWRM approach. Yet a fundamental observation of IWRM is that water is one (interlinked) resource requiring a holistic approach to management and hence groundwater should be fully incorporated.

    After a series of case studies in Africa and some pilot training courses, Cap-Net, the Africa Groundwater Network (AGW-Net) and GW-MATE (Ground Water Management Advisory Team) have collaborated to produce training materials that are the basis for this course. An important objective of these materials is to address groundwater in the IWRM perspective. The goal of the course is to introduce the broader framework of groundwater management to groundwater experts and the specific challenges of groundwater management to other water professionals.

    Groundwater is technically complex but the technical expert and the water manager must reach a common understanding. We hope that these training materials will assist in achieving that objective.

    For further information, please refer document attached.
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