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 About Us
The Water Resources Management Group
Management of water resources is becoming a major challenge for many of our clients. Like most governments, the Bank has not found it easy to develop structures for simultaneously ensuring that we deal with water holistically and respect subsidiarity when it comes to water-using sectors of the economy. Good river basin management agencies, however, do exactly that -- they have the power and instruments to ensure a consistent and effective framework for bulk water and water quality management. But they do it through governance arrangements that involve all users, and do not try to micro-manage the business of utilities, irrigation districts or environment agencies.
Therefore, in March 2000 the World Bank put in place a formal Water Resources Management Group (WRMG) within the Bank, modeled on such "good basin management principles". The members of the WRMG are the managers or lead specialists from the "stakeholder sectors" (water and sanitation, hydropower, irrigation and environment), the lead water resource specialist from each region, the water leaders from the World Bank Institute, IFC, and the GEF Secretariat, as well as a representative from the Legal Department. The WRMG is chaired by John Briscoe and David Grey, who jointly hold the position of Senior Water Advisor at the Bank. Given the cross-network nature of its work, the Group collaborates closely with other Sector Boards of the Bank, such as Environment, Rural, Water and Sanitation, and Energy.
The mandate of the WRMG encompasses:
- quality of our lending and analytic work on water resources;
- human resource actions with respect to water resources management, working collaboratively with various sector boards;
- outreach and corporate positions on water resource issues; and
- knowledge management on water resources.
The Water Resources Management Unit established in the ESSD Vice Presidency functions as the Secretariat of the WRMG. If you have any questions, please contact us through the Ask Us link on the left.
Who's Who
John Briscoe, Senior Water Adviser
David Grey, Senior Water Adviser
Claudia Sadoff, Lead Economist
Salah Darghouth, Irrigation Adviser
Safwat Abdel-Dayem, Drainage Adviser
Ariel Dinar, Lead Water Economist
Alessandro Palmieri, Senior Dams Specialist
Rafik Hirji, Senior Water Resources Specialist, Environment
Stephen Lintner, Senior Adviser, Environment
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