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ICID's perception on basin assessment for scenario development

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
23 KB
Volume
54
Category
Article
ISSN
1531-0353

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✦ Synopsis

Water is a crucial factor for food security, livelihood, and poverty alleviation especially of rural people and also for a healthy environment. The methodology of environmental water needs assessment needs further development for an ''objective'' consideration in river basin water use assessment. The priority or first charge is a question which will be specific to a particular case depending on the settings in which a basin is placed; besides other relevant socio-economic factors, development level and requirements based on population stress need to be kept in view. Other options for assessing water for environment (ecological flows using an ecosystems approach) are in the developing stage.

ICID's efforts in development of the Basinwide Holistic Integrated Water Assessment (BHIWA) model was well acknowledged when it was introduced in a series of international events such as the

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