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It is now widely accepted that water in its many
manifestations is of principal concern to most sections of the
economies of all countries and fundamental to global sustainability,
thanks in a large part to the three decades of IHP’s scientific
leadership. The success of the outputs of the previous six phases
of IHP can be summarized by the wide recognition of the quantified
hydrological cycle being at the heart of integrated water resource
management (IWRM). The quantitative definition of the various
components of the hydrological cycle, frozen freshwater, surface
water and groundwater, provides a powerful engine that drives
all the processes in IWRM. Under Phase VII “Water Dependencies:
Systems under Stress and Societal Responses” five main
themes have been identified:
In addition, two cross-cutting components
interacting with all themes will continue operating under IHP-VII:
FRIEND (Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network
Data) and HELP (Hydrology for the Environment, Life, and Policy)..
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