International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage Commission Interationale des Irrigation et du Drainage



(8855) Water management
1 - Planned development, distribution and use of water resources, in accordance with predetermined objectives and with respect to both quantity and quality of the water resources. 2 - It is the specific control of all human intervention on surface and subterranean water. Every planning activity that has something to do with water can be looked upon as water management in the broadest sense of the term. 3 - One of the branches of national economy dealing with integration of all the activities aimed at a systematic control of the interrelation between water and society, with the main purpose of decreasing damages caused by water on the one hand and exploiting it on the other hand in a technically and economically optimal way.

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