Water Users Stakeholders
The water users stakeholders may need summarised information and reports at regular intervals, on the status of the water allocation in a river basin. This may be a quarterly report in the form of a leaflet.
They may also need to have access to a system to make complaints and to make queries on the water management and water allocation in the river basin. This may take the form of a complaint or query forms, in hardcopy or electronic forms on the Internet.
Civil Society Stakeholders The civil society stakeholders may wish to know general information on the management of the river basin and the status of management of the river basin. The most common form of disseminating this information is through a web site on the Internet.
5. Lessons
From experience of information management systems and the information presented above the lessons to take away are:
Good information management is essential for effective water management in a river basin;
Information management systems should be realistic and work within available resources;
Information management tools and ICT systems should be adopted in a staged process matching the skills and reliability of the information data base;
and Information outputs that meet the needs of water managers and stakeholders demonstrate the effectiveness of the information management system.