CHALLENGES TO EFFECTIVE INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: A REVIEW

The water management sectors are frequently challenged by the Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) principle to disregard structural, domestic, police and administrative support during their implementation process. Therefore, the implementation of the IWRM can lead to conflict, provocation, confusion and downfall of integration. Water sectors are a hugely relevant issue to be handled with the integrated mechanism during water management interventions. The need to incorporate long-term visions and alignment of basin-sub-basins is therefore to be relied to by all main players, which should provide a strong financial basis and be focused to strong awareness of the river basin and its interrelationships. This paper discusses the regulatory framework of water management as the key pillar of a successful IWRM implementation. Comparison are made with countries selected based on the many efforts that have been made under water resource management.