Agriculture
6. Barriers to implementing IWRM in agriculture. (2 of 3)








 

   
 

Lack of understanding of IWRM principles and practices
In many instances, only a few people in the hierarchy of water management know and understand IWRM and often there is insufficient technical support to operationalise IWRM within the agricultural sector.


how much water is used?

Inadequate information and data on how water is used in agriculture
Despite the recognised need for demand management, in many places the data required for analysing water use patterns in detail (e.g. temporal and spatial variation in quantities of water diverted and return flows) is lacking. Of all the sectors agriculture is most often the one for which there is least quantitative information on exactly how much water is being used.

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