The era of intense development of these river
basins centred on expansion of irrigation facilities and water
sharing between the upper riparian catchments typically excluded
the coastal regions, ultimately resulting in reduced river flows,
concentrated pollution loads, accelerated erosion and highly
salinised water sources of the coasts. The coast as an integral
element and tail-end socio-ecosystem of a river basin is not
adequately incorporated even in the new era of source to sink in-tegrated management of river basins oriented towards sustainable
development