Water conservation

Inappropriate water management practices in the Komadugu Yobe Basin, upstream of Lake Chad in northern Nigeria, changed the seasonal river flow and caused widespread environmental degradation. Coupled with this were fragmented regulation and conflicting responsibilities among institutions, a lack of coordination for hydro-agricultural developments, inequitable access to water resources and growing tensions and risk of conflicts among water users.

The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of how IWRM was implemented in Thailand and to suggest some useful steps that may be considered by other countries in adopting and adapting IWRM to their respective contexts. It should be cautioned that there is no blue print for IWRM that will suit all countries, and that each country has to develop and adjust a particular approach that suits the political, social-economic and cultural conditions of the country.

This report makes a positive contribution toward informing governments, agencies and NGOs of actions that need to be taken to reduce significantly the adverse conditions of future droughts.