Linking Poverty Reduction and Water Management

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Linking Poverty Reduction and Water Management

December 2, 2015

The paper analyses the relationship between water management and poverty reduction. The paper argues that water management can impact on poverty reduction in a variety of ways, and that increased resource flows to water management have positive impacts on poverty (and, consequently, on health) and are beneficial in social, environmental and economic terms.