ABSTRACT
River basin management will inevitably be delivered through institutional structures. In this chapter we refer mainly to the agencies which are set up specifically to manage river basins, though the management of the resource ‘package’ inherent in a basin will clearly involve the whole panoply of society’s structures. Agenda 21 states (Chapter 18.21) that,
Although water is managed at various levels in the socio-political system, demand-driven management requires the development of waterrelated institutions at appropriate levels, taking into account the need for integration with land-use management.
