Integrated water management from the perspective of the Dublin Principles

This article analyses the relationship betw een the Dublin Principles of 1992, integrated water planning and water law. The Dublin Principles were an attempt to concisely state the main issues and thrust of water management: fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain life, development and the environment; water development and management should be based on a participatory approach, involving users, planners and policy-makers at all levels; women play a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of water, and water has an economic value in all its competing uses, and should be recognized as an economic good.