Integrated Water Resources Management in the Caribbean: The Challenges facing Small Island Developing States, No. 4 (2014)

In 1998, the Forum of Ministers of the Environment of Latin America and the Caribbean agreed that integrating water and coastal resources management was a priority in the Caribbean region. In 2002, at the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Caribbean States also committed to work towards developing integrated water resources management (IWRM) plans and water use efficiency (WUE) plans by 2005. Some 15 years have now passed and this paper asks: What measures have been taken and what progress has been made towards adopting an integrated approach to water management in the Caribbean?