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<Planning and Management of Lakes and Reservoirs:
An Integrated Approach to Eutrophication
Abridged Version- A Student's Guide>


Study Questions

  1. Evaluate the capacity of your organization to publicize issues of eutrophication management.

  2. List the stakeholders affected by eutrophication and its control. To what extend have they contributed towards effective management of eutrophication?

  3. What partnerships does your organization have in the search for technology for the management for eutrophication?

  4. If your lake or reservoir is a shared water body between riparian states what management instruments are in place for the effective and harmonious management of water quality in the shared water body?

  5. Evaluate the financial support system of your organization and, using cost benefit analysis, consider the optimization of your resources in relation to the economic benefits that accrue from effective management of eutrophication.

  6. Consider your monitoring program and the quality and coverage of your database in relation to the discussion in chapters 1 and 2 for their adequacy for eutrophication management.

  7. Do your institutional partners in eutrophication management appreciate the need for combating eutrophication? Are there any weak links in your institutional partnerships?

  8. To what extent does your organization keep abreast with the infrastructure and human resources requirements for effective eutrophication management operations?

  9. Consider the legal instruments pertaining to the management of water resources in your watersheds and evaluate their effectiveness with respect to eutrophication management. Where the watershed is shared among nations consider the corresponding statutory provisions in the riparian states.


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