Transcript Sustainable Regional Water Resource Management By: Tucson Regional Water Coalition and Southern Arizona Leadership Council MISSION STATEMENT  “Seek to promote policies and actions to; (i) create.

Sustainable Regional
Water Resource
Management
By:
Tucson Regional Water Coalition
and
Southern Arizona Leadership Council
MISSION STATEMENT
 “Seek to promote policies and actions to; (i) create the
long-range planning for a sustainable water supply that
will support the economic vitality, the current and future
population and maintain the quality of life of the Tucson
region (ii) identify and maximize the supply of water
resources available within and to the Tucson region, ,
and (iii) implement best practices for the efficient use,
conservation and management of water resources in the
Tucson region by working in collaboration with all of the
regional water and waste water providers, community
leaders, community decision makers and the general
public.”
Principles of Sustainable
Regional Water Resource
and
Water Resource
Management
Principle #1
 Commitment to the Use of a
Research, Fact-Based and Best
Available Science Approach. Link
current and evolving technology and
information with formats which decisionmakers can use to evaluate alternatives
and make decisions in terms the general
public understands.
Principle #2
 Adopt an Adaptive Resource
Management Approach. Create a
repeatable decision-making process that
includes long-term monitoring and
reevaluation to address evolving
conditions.
Principal #3
 Acknowledge that Sound Water
Resource Management Knows No
Jurisdictional Boundaries. Basins or
watersheds are the most appropriate
geographic units for water management.
Principle #4
 Acknowledge Water Resources are a
Community Resource and Asset. All
water resources in the region—
groundwater, CAP, other surface water,
and effluent—should be cooperatively
used for the maximum economic, social,
and environmental net benefit of the
region.
Principle #5
 Understand Water as an Economic
Good. Establish a community dialogue
understanding water has an economic
value to all competing uses/users, and
discuss tradeoffs between uses/users in
monetized and/or quantifiable terms.
Principle #6
 Maximize Use of Renewable Water
Resources in Tucson AMA. Support
shared uses of infrastructure through
cost-effective wheeling agreements for
delivery of effluent, surface water, and/or
stored renewable supplies to achieve
greater integration, reliability, flexibility
and reliance on renewable supplies
throughout the region.
Principle #7
 Embrace Conjunctive Water Resource
Management to Maximize Long-Term
Flexibility and Reliability. Impacts of
prolonged drought can be mitigated
through regionally coordinated
management of groundwater and surface
water resources, maximizing storage of
surface water in times of surplus to
account for cyclical, decadal weather
patterns.
Principle #8
 Promote a Consensus on Community
Values for Effluent Re-Use. Evaluate
all alternative uses/users of available
effluent as part of a community dialogue
and allocate according to regional
consensus regarding maximum
economic, social, and environmental net
benefit expressed in monetized and/or
quantifiable terms.
Principle #9
 Promote Community-Wide
Conservation Goals and Standards.
Establish policies that maximize gallons
saved per community dollars spent,
focusing finite economic resources on
uses/users with the greatest
conservation potential.
Principle #10
 Acknowledge Conserved Water as a
Reliable Supply. Evaluate proven
conservation measures as an alternative
to supply acquisition, justifying
investment decisions on alternatives that
yield the maximum economic, social, and
environmental net benefit expressed in
monetized and/or quantifiable terms.
Principle #11
 Promote Growth Management. Establish an
integrative process coordinating land use and
water resources to ensure responsible
management of these community assets,
tempered by respect for fundamental
community values such as self-determination,
jurisdictional sovereignty, and private property
rights protection to maximize the economic,
social, and environmental net benefit for the
region expressed in monetized and/or
quantifiable terms.
Principle #12
 Promote Partnerships and
Collaborations with All Local Water
and Wastewater Providers.
Cooperative arrangements aid in conflict
resolution, increase operational
efficiencies and reliability, facilitate
complementary and/or supplementary
activities, and enhance the body of
shared knowledge.
Principle #13
 Establishment of a Sustainable Water
Resource Management Plan, Budget
and Implementation (Fiscal and
Physical) Strategies for the Tucson
Metropolitan Area. Move away from the
“plan and pay as we go” approach and
develop flexible long-range plans and
funding mechanisms to avoid the
potential for future crisis management
situations.
Principle #14
 Promote Comprehensive Inclusiveness and
Transparency in Decision-Making and
Public Participation Processes. Water
management must be based on a participatory
approach, involving a measured balance of
technical expertise and expression of
community values with an emphasis on
consensus building between users, planners,
and policy-makers at all levels within the
region.