these include recommendations pertaining to greater vertical and horizontal coordination multilevel and integrated governance longterm planning and integration of broader ecological and economic development considerations into water governance deviation of the main rivers that used to flow into the lagoon between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries drastically changed the sediment budget of the lagoon and ended the risk of it ever silting up altogether the main human interventions over the past century have disturbed the preexisting situation of the lagoon which was closer to a stable albeit dynamic equilibrium between land and marine forces