English version 2. French version 3 . This owes to its nature of often being transboundary and shared between two countries or more.
Water resources define our wealth as individuals, nations, and community.
They are critical to the regional growth, economic integration, and collective economic independence in an increasingly globalising world. There is, thus, a need for integrated water resources development and management in the region. One of the major constraints to achieving this integration has been a lack of information and poor dissemination of the little available information. However the existence of useful tools, such as the Internet, has now made communication easier than it has ever been before. Hence we, the SADC water managers and users, would like to explore this opportunity in order to be able to exchange ideas on how to best manage and utilise our water resources in a sustainable manner.