ABSTRACT
We concluded Chapter 6 by stressing the importance of social criteria for managing water demand and the role of water governance. We identifi ed the need to better understand how control over water is exercised and emphasised efforts to promote stakeholder and community engagement. The discussion considered the particular challenge of vertical integration, through up-scaling from the individual to the institution. Here in Chapter 7 we move onto consideration of horizontal scaling, or organisation of water control over the spatial scale, a key element of the ‘holistic management’ identifi ed with the ecological principle (see Chapter 1, fourth section The Emergence of an International Agenda for Waterresource Management, p. 27).
