Conjunctive water management: a powerful contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Sea water, atmospheric water, ice and snow cover, surface water, groundwater, soil water, water in the human water use chain and wastewater are all interconnected within the hydrological cycle. Water development planners and water resources managers should be aware of this and take it fully into account. Unfortunately, this is often not (or not yet) the case. In practice, fragmented approaches to water resources development and management prevail, in which water resources professionals tend to focus on one single water cycle component and overlook interactions with the other ones, or opportunities offered by these. This attitude – sometimes called ‘hydroschizophrenia’ – can be corrected by embracing the Conjunctive Water Management paradigm.
[France: 2020]

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