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5. Benefits of IWRM to the environment. (3 of 3)  








 

     

 

Positive side effects for other natural resources
An ecosystem approach to water management focuses on several field level interventions: protecting upper catchments (e.g. reforestation, good land husbandry, soil erosion control), pollution control (e.g. point source reduction, non-point source incentives, groundwater protection) and environmental flows (e.g. through reducing abstractions, special releases from reservoirs, river restoration).

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