Transcript Classic IWRM: The Delaware River Basin Commission
Integrated Water Resources Management: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process?
Michael E. Campana Past President, AWRA Professor of Hydrogeology & Water Resources Management Oregon State University
AWRA 2014 Summer Specialty Conference IWRM: From Theory to Application 30 June – 2 July, Reno, NV
Introduction to IWRM Emperor & Water King Shameless Plug – Water Book!
What is IWRM? AWRA & IWRM Resources & Activities Other Resources: USACE, OWRD Misgivings: Juggernauts & Groundwater My Take: Miscellaneous Musings, etc.
The Future of IWRM Thanks!
He’s Baaack! The Emperor of IWRM!
Integrated Water Resources Management: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process?
The Water King’s (Emperor’s Evil Twin) 3 Commandments!
1)“A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.” – African proverb 2) “Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.” 3) Bottled water = $3.2M/acre-foot (see #1)
What is IWRM? AWRA & IWRM Activities
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management maximise economic and social welfare equitable sustainability environment. – in an manner without compromising the of vital ecosystems and the Global Water Partnership of water, land and related resources in order to [http://is.gd/7l3kZD]
Operationally, IWRM approaches involve applying knowledge from disciplines as well as various insights from diverse stakeholders to devise and implement efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to water and development problems (GWP 2000; http://www.gwp.org/)
“… the coordinated planning, development, protection, and management of water, land and related resources in a manner that fosters sustainable economic activity, improves or sustains environmental quality, ensures public health and safety, and provides for the sustainability of communities and ecosystems...” (http://is.gd/6xAJG2)
Multidisciplinary AWRA: well-suited to IWRM Held Four Water Policy Dialogues http://is.gd/aIjto0 Water Resources IMPACT issue in May 2011; Webinars; Two Reports Conducted large survey of water professionals on IWRM 2006 IWRM Policy Statement adopted 2011 Organized International Specialty Conferences on IWRM in 2011and 2014 Established IWRM Award in 2012
Case Studies in Integrated Water Resources Management: From Local Stewardship to National Vision A Report by the Policy Committee of the American Water Resources Association Download: http://is.gd/3qgfZl Additional IWRM Resources ($$): http://is.gd/gzZcW2
Proactive Flood and Drought Management Report: A Selection of Applied Strategies and Lessons Learned from Around the United States A Report by the Policy Committee of the American Water Resources Association Download: http://is.gd/M7hlja Additional IWRM Resources ($$): http://is.gd/gzZcW2
June 2011- Snowbird, UT http://is.gd/xLa7UC Integrated Water Resources Management: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process? Symposium on Collaborative Modeling & IWRM at Snowbird: http://is.gd/u4f8zp Water Resources IMPACT issue: http://is.gd/21QTGj Summer 2014 Conference: IWRM – From Theory to Application, 30 June – 2 July, Reno, NV http://is.gd/yz7S7T
Other Resources: USACE & Oregon WRD
USACE Report: Understanding Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Download: http://is.gd/8Ih143
Oregon: Researching Neighboring States Developed a Discussion Paper & Draft Guidelines (https://bitly.com/1ou046g)
California IRWM Texas Regional Planning Washington Watershed Planning
Misgivings: Juggernauts & Groundwater
◦ 'From IWRM Back to Integrated Water Resources Management’ paper by Mark Giordano & Tushaar Shah (http://is.gd/Jrr0JS) An IWRM juggernaut?
“Integrated water resources management provides a set of ideas to help us manage water more holistically. However, these ideas have been formalized over time in what has now become, in capitals, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), with specific prescriptive principles whose implementation is often supported by donor funding and international advocacy. IWRM has now become an end in itself, in some cases undermining functioning water management systems, in others setting back needed water reform agendas, and in yet others becoming a tool to mask other agendas. Critically, the current monopoly of IWRM in global water management discourse is shutting out alternative thinking on pragmatic solutions to existing water problems.”
IWRM
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key aspects vis-
à
-vis GW
• Sustainability • Surface watershed (SW) is often used as the management/governance unit
Groundwater:
• Sustainably pumped? Response times • Flows v. Stocks ( 98% of unfrozen FW) • Boundaries – groundwatersheds not fixed and can underlie multiple SWs • Nonrenewability – IWRM nonstarter?
• Limited replenishment (recharge) • Limited replenishment, large storage • Replenished, but over long time scales • Water is mined (abstraction > R) • Polluted • ‘Decoupled ’ from hydrologic cycle
My Take
1) Use of the watershed scale and sustainability requirement nonrenewable groundwater in IWRM. 2) However, as water resources become further stressed by climate change, population growth, etc., nonrenewable groundwater will become more important as a water source, if only as a buffer or temporary supply.
3) could preclude inclusion of Recommendation: Need to consider NR GW as a component of IWRM and devise ways to manage it, perhaps in conjunction with Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) or the
unitization
approach. ( http://is.gd/hpOh1g)
You can certainly (and should) support and practice integrated water resources management without buying into the IWRM juggernaut. If you want to call what you do IWRM, I don't have a problem with that. To me, IWRM is an abbreviation describing a process.
I like how Giordano and Shah conclude their paper: "As Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues concluded a decade ago: (1) there is no one best system for governing water resources; and (2) many more viable options exist for resource management than envisioned in much of the policy literature. (Ostrom, Stern, & Dietz, 2003). We need to put the problems first and then work to find pragmatic solutions, whether they use IWRM principles or not." Mark Giordano and Tushaar Shah
My Take: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process?
Miscellaneous Musings The Future of IWRM
I lean to ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ Is IWRM a ‘Juggernaut’? That is hyperbole, although there is a certain element of truth in that statement.
IWRM is not necessarily the only game around nor should it supplant other systems just for the sake of replacement. ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’
More consideration of groundwater, including nonrenewable groundwater Benefits of IWRM v. other approaches More monitoring, evaluation, and long-term assessment of IWRM What distinguishes IWRM from other water management approaches?
Address issues broached by Giordano & Shah IWRM is aspirational IWRM always struck me as ‘common sense’ – the way water management should be done. Why did it need to be branded ‘IWRM’?
In 2030 no one will recall what IWRM stood for but the tenets of integrated water resources management will be second nature.
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(Mis)Infographic: More Groundwater Garbage - Dissing Our Largest Unfrozen Freshwater Resource
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– John Laird, California Resources Secretary (suggests there is a solution!)
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– Cicero
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