| Environmental management |
To preserve and leverage the remaining wetlands and regionally significant environmental
assets, including
riverine habitats, for both ecological purposes and enhancing bio-diversity, including fish and other
aquatic
organisms, and to extend and promote greater tourism income.
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| To continue to invest in rehabilitation and improvement of forest areas to better manage
catchments, enhance the
lifetime of storage reservoirs and contribute to reducing GHG emissions.
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| To implement measures for managing mainstream and tributary floods in a manner sensitive to
environmental needs
and climate change (including sea level rise), recognising the ecological benefits of floods as well as the rising
cost of flood damage as a result of changing use and value of flood plains prompted by growing economies and
expansion of urban and industrial centres.
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| Economic development |
Further develop hydropower to promote regional energy security and cross-border trade and
contribute to greater
security in dry season water availability.
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| Increase abstractions for irrigation (whilst taking steps to improve irrigation efficiencies)
to address and
target drought protection, household food and water security needs, and the economic value of the basin’s
resources.
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| Improve inland water transport (navigation) by taking advantage of greater water depths in the
dry season
throughout the mainstream and in some tributaries.
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