Water Science & Technology Vol 51 No 8 pp 177–185 © IWA Publishing 2005
River basins: the environmental engines to keep us all running
P. Matthews
Board Member, Environment Agency, England and Wales, Slepey House, Honey Hill, Fenstanton, Cambs, PE 28 9JP, UK, (E-mail: pmatthews@pelicanport.freeserve.co.uk)
ABSTRACT
The importance of clean water, good sanitation and a healthy environment demands better management of planning, control and regulation with catchments increasingly being the administrative basis of regional management. It then makes eminent sense from a theoretical and practical point of view to use the basin as the administrative unit to model and administer an integrated environmental protection regime. Keywords River basins; catchments; environmental administration; boundaries
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