Transboundary water resources management in water stressed regions
Event details
| Date | 06.12.2010 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Professor Dinis Juizo, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo (MZ) |
| Location |
GR A3 30
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Water resources management in water scarce regions like the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is challenging with both large hydro-climatic-induced scarcity and the considerable inter-annual fluctuations. Water must be allocated both in time and space with acceptable criteria and the adhesion of stakeholders to the decisions imposed by water sharing agreements. In SADC, most of the land territory (70%) falls within a designated international river basin area, creating considerable interdependences between states. A SADC protocol on shared watercourses has been develop over the past 15 years aiming at a better integrated water resources development which will certainly put the regional economy in motion. The implementation of that protocol has not been and is still not an easy task.
For Mozambique that shares 9 of the 15 transboundary rivers in the region, considerable areas of research must be covered by a limited capacity both in institutional and financial terms. Developing models and tools for decision making about water allocation that are seen transparent and trustworthy for in modeling of transboundary rivers is an essential element of an agenda to pursue.
Up till now two major challenges have been identified: the lack of reliable hydrological data in large areas of the basins in the region and the poor integration of water quality issues in water agreement. Some results have been achieved leading to a key conclusion that transparency, stakeholder involvement and simple methods can contribute to fast implementation of integrated water resources management in water stressed regions like SADC.
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- Mrs Theodora Cohen Liechti