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Water resource management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the
optimum use of water resources. It is a sub-set of water cycle management. Ideally, water resource
management planning has regard to all the competing demands for water and seeks to allocate water
on an equitable basis to satisfy all uses and demands. As with other resource management, this is
rarely possible in practice.
Water is not only an essential resource in itself, but also of prime importance as transport agent (e.g. of
soil and nutrients), as a dissolver and carrier of materials and energy. Within the resources sections of
UNU-FLORES, Water Resources Management in particular considers these linkages and:
Content:
1. Overview
2. Agriculture
3. Managing water in urban settings
4. Future of water resources
5. Projects & Operations
6. Results
7. Data(http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/waterresour
cesmanagement/research)
8. How to develop sustainable irrigation projects with
private sector participation
(http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/201
6/02/25912697/develop-sustainable-irrigation-
projects-private-sector-participation