Title:	Reforming Institutions in Water Resource Management: Policy and Performance for Sustainable Development
Authors:	Lin Crase and Vasant P. Gandhi
Keywords:	water development
Issue Date:	2009
Publisher:	Earthscan
Description:	The management of water resources is proving to be a major international challenge. In March 2007 international scientists and development workers responded to serious concerns about increasing water scarcity and the atten- dant implications for hunger and poverty by calling for an expansion of the goals embodied in the United Nations Millennium Declaration. More specifi- cally, the Vientiane Statement espouses a vision that comprises ‘a more water and food secure world, one where water management, innovative technologies and effective institutional arrangements work together towards eliminating hunger, poverty and disease, and where ecological services and resource qual- ity are preserved’. Ambitiously, the authors of the Statement contended that ‘such a world is within our reach
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26772
ISBN:	978–1–84407–755–7
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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