While integrated water resource management provides an integrated framework for addressing water issues, countries will want to tailor integrated water resources management plans to their own particular water management needs and objectives.

b) the integrated management of water resources,

Decide to facilitate access to water for all and to accelerate the preparation of national integrated water management and water efficiency plans

These priorities include water scarcity and pollution sanitation, safe drinking water and health gender mainstreaming in water and sanitation integrated water resources management transboundary water issues and disaster reduction.

Experience shows that water management, including protection of water quality, is more effective if water and sanitation issues are dealt with in an integrated manner.

An integrated, multisectoral and balanced approach can be most effective, addressing drinking water and sanitation together with water resource management.

Preparing integrated water resource management plans and creating an institutional and policy framework

The Water, Sanitation and Infrastructure Branch has integrated norms of good urban governance into its activities related to water education and management.

244 (XXII) Cooperation between ESCWA member countries with respect to shared water resources and the Arab network for the integrated management of water resources

Many of those countries would also not be able to meet the deadline of 2005 for preparing integrated water resources management and water efficiency plans.

Integrated water resources management plans could provide a broad framework to encompass not only water supply and waste water treatment, but also the development of other options, such as demand side management and waste water recycling and reuse.

It is vital to achieve environmentally sustainable water use, and the application of integrated water resources management, including ecosystem approaches, is the appropriate process for that purpose.

Options are presented on access to basic water services integrated water resources management access to basic sanitation sanitation and hygiene education and wastewater collection, treatment and reuse.

This programme supports the implementation of the integrated water resources management component of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation within the framework of the Water for Life Decade.

(e) In the Near East, the development of hybrid rice and water efficient rice integrated crop management systems.

Botswana reported that SADC has approved a regional strategic action plan for integrated water resources development and management.

A training manual for the region was prepared, addressing the integration of water policies, institutional and legislative tools and the administrative methods required for integrated water resources management.

The management of non renewable water resources has been addressed by OSS within an integrated approach to combat desertification.

To address these challenges, ESCWA initiated several activities in 2004 and 2005 as part of preparations for the Water for Life Decade, mainly in building capacity for shared water resources management and integrated water resources management.

(a) Countries should be encouraged to adopt integrated water resource management, including demand management, develop renewable and non conventional resources, and involve stakeholders in planning and implementing water policies

Capacity building will focus on the development of skills in newer programming areas, including learning and knowledge management, intermediate level capacity building, integrated water resources management and household water treatment.

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

In Africa, the ongoing initiatives for rehabilitating degraded land are focused on reforestation, soil conservation and integrated management of water resources.

They called on Governments to provide greater support for integrated water resources management, a doubling of aid for water and sanitation by 2010 and an integration of human settlements in development strategies.

Five courses have been offered, namely, water supply technology, hotel management, infectious paediatric nursing, environmental impact assessment and integrated coastal zone management.

Management of transboundary water resources could be assisted through bilateral, regional or subregional arrangements, with support for capacity building from international financial and other institutions, using integrated water resource management as a reference.

Maximum child survival and development benefits are realized when water supply, sanitation and hygiene programmes are coordinated or integrated with other sectoral programmes.

Countries should adopt time bound environmental targets, particularly for such priorities as forest replanting, integrated water resources management, ecosystem preservation and curbing pollution.

Policy actions on water tend to be most effective when integrated with broader development planning processes and not seen as stand alone processes.

The Minister of State for Water of Uganda presented the outcome of the International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management, held in Tokyo, from 6 to 9 December 2004, and the fifth ordinary session of the African Ministers' Council on Water, held in November 2004.

The Minister of State for Water of Uganda presented the outcome of the International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management, held in Tokyo, from 6 to 9 December 2004, and the fifth ordinary session of the African Ministers' Council on Water, held in November 2004.

The economic and social development of the three areas demands an integrated approach to the exploitation of energy and other natural resources, particularly water.

Phase 2 (2004 2006) involved Morocco and integrated a Decision Support System for soil and water resources management which made use of a database.

These regional legal instruments set goals and tasks for countries and institutions that are responsible for integrated water resources management in a transboundary context.

UNDP and its partners have been facilitating country level action for the preparation of plans for integrated water resources management and for promoting the participation of multiple stakeholders in the implementation of water resources management practices.

These include, among other things, national cleaner technologies strategies, environmental management accounting, integrated water resources management, energy for sustainable development and social impacts of mining

A truly global, integrated approach also requires essentials such as immunization, access to clean water and decent sanitation, good nutrition, care and protection from abuse.

Options to advance the integrated water resources management process could include market based mechanisms and a combination of management by catchment and management by region.

During the International Decade for Action, Water for Life , 2005 2015, priority should be given to implementing policies agreed at the thirteenth session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, including raising public awareness and integrated management of water resources.

b. Parliamentary documentation two reports on (i) five year review of ESCWA water sector achievements in implementing the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation and (ii) policy options for the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management Plans at the national level

In the framework of the UNESCO ESA Earth Observation for Integrated Water Resources Management in Africa Space Hydrology International Partnership project, capacity building activities on the application of remote sensing to water resource studies will be initiated in 2005.

If we are to achieve the necessary levels of energy, land, water, and carbon productivity, we must develop an integrated global framework that recognizes resource inter dependencies.

The Commission embraced the core message of the Governing Council that the issues of water and sanitation should be integrated into a broad based framework on human settlements.

There is also a need to intensify efforts to develop water and land related technologies for irrigation and water desalination, using solar energy technologies, and to develop pollution control measures, including integrated programmes for pest management and the control of chemical pollution.

UNEP should work with UNDP and through the United Nations Development Group to ensure that environmentally sustainable water use is integrated into poverty reduction strategies and national development plans.