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Bridging Troubled Waters: Assessing the World Bank Water Resources Strategy29 4. Why It’s Difficult to Get Good Results29 Comprehensive Water Management Is Inherently Difficult30 International Water Cooperation Is Essential but Controversial31 Water Is Not Seen as an Important Economic Resource31 Transforming Strategy into Action Is Difficult32 Detailed Guidelines Have Been Lacking32 Selectivity and Good Management Are Important32 Seven Ways to Improve Results37 5. Improving Bank Management and Internal Incentives38 The Bank Is Poorly Organized to Implement the Water Strategy39 But Successful Institutional Approaches Are Evolving39 Staff Resources Are Stretched Too Thinly39 External Stakeholders Also See Problems40 Better Guidelines Are Needed41 6. RecommendationsAnnexes43 Annex A: World Bank Operational Policy 4.07, Water ResourcesManagement45 Annex B: Methodology53 Annex C: Sector Performance—Recovering from a Troubled Past59 Annex D: Assessing Water Project Design Utilizing the Water PolicyMatrix Development for the Bank’s 1993 Water Strategy Paper79 Annex E: Social Development Dimensions of Bank-Financed WaterSector Projects91 Annex F: Resettlement in Bank Water Projects—Results from a RandomSample of 108 Water Projects93 Annex G: Water Resources Management Policy Questionnaire to BankStaff101 Annex H: The Difficulties of Integrated River Basin Management105 Endnotes109 BibliographyText Boxes2 Box 1.1: The Dublin Guiding Principles on Water22 Box 3.1: World Bank Safeguard PoliciesText Figures3 Figure 1.1: Water Availability Continues to Decline in DevelopingCountries4 Figure 1.2: A Comprehensive Framework for Water Management9 Figure 2.1: ESW Is Responsive to the Water Strategy11 Figure 2.2: The Upward Trend in Bank Lending for Water May Be Over11 Figure 2.3: Lending for Water Has Been Concentrated in Relatively FewCountries12 Figure 2.4: Lending to the Traditional Water Sectors Has Declined Sincethe 1993 Strategy13 Figure 2.5: Inclusion of Social Development and Poverty Concerns inWater Projects Has Been Increasingiv