Water Resource Management

The most accepted approaches to water resource management such as IWRM (Integrated Water Resource Management) and EA (Ecosystem Approach) tackle the core challenge of nowadays – how to realign the availability of water with human– and economic-based demands at levels that maintain both ecosystem- and human health sustainably. The alarming degradation of freshwater ecosystems in Eastern Africa is calling for immediate action at all levels including significant financial means for research, implementation of evidence-based policies and massive interventions to accomplish the sustainable management of water resources.