1. The global implications of water management

2. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
Objectives
Global management strategies to protect the water cycle including improving forestry techniques, water allocations for domestic, industrial and agricultural use and drainage basin planning (including run-off, surface stores and groundwater).

3. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
What different strategies can be put in place to manage the global water cycle?

4. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
Read pages 135 and 136
Forestry
Give examples of how multilateral agencies can promote forest protection and restoration? You must give specific examples.

5. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
What is the biggest consumer of water?

6. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
How do the following agricultural techniques reduce the evaporation/wastage or run off of water?

7. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
How can you manage the amount of water used on a large river basin such as the Colorado River?

8. Water allocation
The Colorado River Compact is a 1922 agreement among seven U.S. states in the basin of the Colorado River in the American Southwest governing the allocation of the water rights to the river's water among the parties of the interstate compact.
The compact divides the river basin into two areas, the Upper Division (comprising Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming) and the Lower Division (Nevada, Arizona and California

9. Water allocation
The Colorado River Compact was signed in Why could this be an issue?

10. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
Read pages 135 and 136
Forestry
Give examples of how can multilateral agencies can promote forest protection and restoration? You must give specific examples.
Agricultural management
2) How can water wastage from agriculture be reduced? Also look back at land crop management in table 4.17 on page 135.
Water allocation
3a) What is the Colorado Compact?
b) What issues are occurring with the Colorado Compact today and why?

11. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
Drainage Basin Planning

12. Management strategies to protect the global water cycle
Drainage Basin Planning
4a) What is drainage basin management? How does this work?
b) How has this been set up in England and Wales?
c) What are the benefits of this type of approach?