Using Community-Generated Data for Water Management Policy

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This Policy Notes documents the experience of Lantapan, a watershed community in Bukidnon, where data collected by a community-based group to monitor its watershed's quality through the years helped alert the local government on the critical state of their water resources, thereby helping avert a possible water crisis. At the same time, the findings indicate the urgency to have a consistency of policies at both the national and local levels in order to ensure a more effective, efficient and sustainable management of natural resources, especially water resources.