Water management policy for sustainable development
by Fouzia Siddiq, Mitali De, Keith W. Hipel
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER), Vol. 1, No. 2, 1999

Abstract: Irresponsible activities by society expose water to a wide variety of risks. These risks can be minimised by designing and implementing domestic and international water management policies that link the environment, socio-cultural concerns and economic issues in a way that could bring long term benefits to present and future generations. This paper provides an example of a system methodology to compare federal water management polices/guidelines of three industrially developed countries according to a range of selected criteria related to water quality, management technique, involvement of people in decision making process, and implication of water management policy. Then evaluation matrices of criteria versus policies are formed. Analyses of matrices using Composite Programming (CP) algorithm resulting in a preference ranking of those policies.

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