Integrated water resource management
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a method that promotes the harmonized development and supervision of water along with land and related natural resources to exploit economic and social welfare reasonably without hampering the sustainability of the ecosystems and environment.
IWRM is based on the three principles:
social equity, economic efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Considering these principles there are two-step processes to implement IWRM (i)
Demand management (ii) Supply management