One of the activities of the IWRM-WE Plan is to engage with stakeholder on the identification of the most appropriate WRMAs, based on surface and groundwater resources. [...] Management of river basins must include the management of the natural functions of the basin and thus the maintenance of ecosystem functioning. [...] In Botswana, river basin boundary issues emerge with respect to the Makgadikgadi-Nata River basin, which is sometimes considered part of the Okavango River Basin and with the Okavango and Linyanti- Chobe-Zambezi River Basins, where the Linyanti-Chobe is linked to the Okavango Basin via the ephemeral Makgwegwane River and the Selinda spillway. [...] This offers the opportunity to align them with the WRMAs to facilitate the implementation of the IWRM-WE Plan and the Water Policy. [...] Francistown, Palapye and Kanye this is the most complex basin where the bulk of the population is concentrated and the storage dams are located: there is need for coordinated water resource management for the entire basin portion in Botswana; western sections of Kweneng and Southern District are not technically part of Limpopo basin but would need to be included.
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- Gaborone, Botswana
