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Description: Integrated Water Management as a Pathway to Climate Resilience, Singapore's Water Problem, Urban Water Management (An Introduction), Integrated water management and climate resilience, WEBINAR: Integrated Water Resources Management

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Water resource management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources . It is a sub-set of water cycle management . Ideally, water resource management planning has regard to all the competing demands for water and seeks to allocate water on an equitable basis to satisfy all uses and demands. As with other resource management , this is rarely possible in practice.

Water is an essential resource for all life on the planet. Of the water resources on Earth only three percent of it is fresh and two-thirds of the freshwater is locked up in ice caps and glaciers. Of the remaining one percent, a fifth is in remote, inaccessible areas and much seasonal rainfall in monsoonal deluges and floods cannot easily be used. At present only about 0.08 percent of all the world’s fresh water is exploited by mankind in ever increasing demand for sanitation , drinking , manufacturing , le

Much efforts in water resource management is directed at optimising the use of water and in minimising the environmental impact of water use on the natural environment.

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