Stakeholder representation
The requirement of IWRM to allow stakeholder representation will require wholesale reorientation in many existing organisations used to seeing themselves as ‘experts’ and ‘managers’. They will need to change to being facilitators, enablers, and regulators. This will require a shift in the skills base, with a particular focus on the use of participatory techniques.

No blue prints
Finally, IWRM can only be built on experimentation. There are no blue prints, regionally, national, or even sub-nationally. People must be given the freedom to experiment and find solutions that suit them and their environment.