Experience of Preparation of River Basin Planning and Management on Water Resource Development, Use, and Protection in Main and Minor Transboundary River Basins

The Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) concept was discussed at large international conferences all over the world in the 1990s and into the beginning of this millennium. As a result, the Special Directive of the World Summit on stable development was adopted in 2002, according to which all countries should have developed Integrated Water Resource Management and Water Saving Plans by 2005. The IWRM’s main goals are as follows