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IWRM ACTIVITY
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BASIC APPROACH
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COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
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1. Establish regional & catchment goals
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Short-term needs considering long-term factors
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Long-term
needs considering short-term impacts
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2. Comprehensive information base
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Obtain
existing information and experience
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Combined available information with new data reflecting management needs
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3. Projecting future conditions
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Predictions based on recent experience and goals
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Develop alternative scenarios reflecting alternative goals and investments
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4. Governance
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Accept existing but review concepts that assist in new
goals
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Analyze alternative concepts and opportunities for change
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5. Strategy development
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Design activities consistent with multiple existing goals
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Consider alternative strategies and their relative value
in achieving multiple objectives
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6. Environmental integration
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Considered sustainability of projects in the context of
present and likely policies on sustainability
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Develop integrated programs that optimally achieve
multiple objectives to assure asset and environmental sustainability
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7. Operating practices
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Assure coordination of present and proposed activities
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Create new efficient operating practices to optimize
public service
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8. Strengthen local capacity to implement IWRM
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Optimize existing capacities to support IWRM goals
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Carry out diagnosis of capacity gaps and prioritize
actions to strengthen those capacities considered to be strategic for
improving sustainability of IWRM.
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Source: Industry Sector Report for WSSD prepared by IWA
