FWR3101: Integrated Water Resource Management

The course introduces students to Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The purpose of this course is to give the students of water resources management a wider understanding of IWRM and the procedures and tools available for its implementation. 

Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, students will be able to; 

• Learn about the basic principles and practices of IWRM. 
• Analyse the functions of natural and anthropogenic factors in water resources management. 
• Learn about the transboundary issues in water resources management ·
• Examine water as a social and economic good.
• Explain the principles of catchment management including policies, strategies and institutional arrangements for IWRM ·
• Learn about the measures to protect water resources including laws and regulations governing water resources.

Learning outcomes 
At the end of the course, students should be able to: 

• Explain the basic principles and practices of IWRM and functioning of such systems.
• Asses the role of natural and anthropogenic factors in water resources management. 
• Understand water demand/use and management interactions.
• Make appropriate and critical use of water management modelling and integrated water management principles to solve  issues  relating to water conservation, Treatment and Reuse  and transboundary water resources management
• Plan for water resource development 
• Identify, formulate and analyze a management problem in a given water management system in an appropriate institutional framework 
• Critically appraise the existing procedures for water resources management and suggest improvements