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The
need for Integrated
Water Resources Management
to be implemented.
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The importance of basic
hydrologic data collection
(rainfall, river discharge, groundwater
levels,water quality) through long-term
monitoring networks.
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Capacity
building, both in human
resources at all levels from extension
workers, technicians, engineers, scientists
and water resources management; as well
as institutionally to build water research
organizations and implementing agencies
that are well-structured and sustainably
financed, and empowered water users associations.
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Water action cannot be successful
on its own, rather, it needs to be incorporated
into an overall approach to sustainable development
that aims to achieve all Millennium Development
Goals – not only the water and sanitation
target.Vice versa, few Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs) can be achieved without progress
in the water sector. Poverty Reduction |
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Strategies
(PRSPs) form a useful framework to demonstrate
how water can contribute to overall development.
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