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More
emphasis on maintaining the underlying ecosystem
The ecosystem approach provides a new framework for IWRM that focuses
more attention on a system approach to water management. It provides
an alternative to a sub-sector competition perspective, with more
emphasis on maintaining the underlying ecosystem as a factor that
can join stakeholders in developing a shared view and joint action.
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Uniting
different stakeholders
Most importantly, the IWRM concept can bring together communities,
industrialists, water managers and opinion formers (teachers, religious
leaders, media representatives) in a common cause to achieve sustainability
by conserving both water and ecosystems.
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