Complementary safeguards for robust regional watershed governance in a federation: New York City and its municipal water supply

Hanlon, Jeffrey W.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.04.014

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“…Although of role-model character, the security of NYC water supply and the governance of its water system cannot be taken for granted. Diverse urban, rural, and industrial interests must undergo constant negotiation and adaptation with changing power relations, and goals and interests for land use [38]. In the past, competing interests with urban water supply concerned farming, hunting, and recreation.…”

Section: Case Study and Data Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The low robustness scenario accounts for a weakened MOA in terms of the conditions benefitting NYC's water security, and increasing pressures on water resources for agriculture (irrigation and pesticide/fertilizer use) and industry (e.g. hydro-fracking) [38,39]. 3.…”

Section: High Risk Low Robustness Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The combination of sea level rise and land subsidence in the NYC area could lead to water-related epidemic incidents through an increase in cracked and leaking pipes, sewer overflows and reverse flows due to the loss of hydraulic head [62,63]. Epidemic episodes of gastrointestinal disease could also occur due to more flashy runoff events and increased water turbidity [42,64,65], due to which the Filtration Avoidance Determination granted to NYC by the USEPA would have to be revised [38,66].…”

Section: High Risk Low Robustness Scenariomentioning

confidence: 99%

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Integrated assessment of urban water supply security and resilience: towards a streamlined approach

Krueger

McPhearson

Levin

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Urbanization and competing water demand, as well as rising temperatures and changing weather patterns, are manifesting as gradual processes that increasingly challenge urban water supply security. Cities are also threatened by acute risks arising at the intersection of aging infrastructure, entrenched institutions, and the increasing occurrence of extreme weather events. To better understand these multi-layered, interacting challenges of providing urban water supply for all, while being prepared to deal with recurring shocks, we present an integrated analysis of water supply security in New York City and its resilience to acute shocks and chronic disturbances. We apply a revised version of a recently developed, quantitative framework (‘Capital Portfolio Approach’, CPA) that takes a social-ecological-technological systems perspective to assess urban water supply security as the performance of water services at the household scale. Using the parameters of the CPA as input, we use a coupled systems dynamics model to investigate the dynamics of services in response to shocks—under current conditions and in a scenario of increasing shock occurrence and a loss of system robustness. We find water supply security to be high and current response to shocks to be resilient thanks to past shock experiences. However, we identify a number of risks and vulnerability issues that, if unaddressed, might significantly impact the city’s water services in the mid-term future. Our findings have relevance to cities around the world, and raise questions for research about how security and resilience can and should be maintained in the future.

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Section: Case Study and Data Sourcesmentioning

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Integrated assessment of urban water supply security and resilience: towards a streamlined approach

Krueger

McPhearson

Levin

2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…The role of the city in shaping that history, as well as shaping the physical landscape and hydrology of the region, became overwhelming when the city decided, in the early 1900s, to build reservoirs in the Catskills to serve its municipal water supply and when the city expanded the reservoir system during subsequent decades (Galusha 1999). The 1997 Memorandum of Agreement (along with subsequent addenda) now defines the governance structure of this natural resource and provides a legal framework for a hopefully equitable distribution of resources and shared decision-making in an adaptive management style framework (Soll 2013;Hanlon 2017;Hanlon et al 2017).…”

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Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee: How Unusual Were They in the Catskill Mountains?

Frei

Kelly‐Voicu

2017

J. of Extr. Even.

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During the late summer and early autumn of 2011, the Catskill Mountains in south-central New York State experienced devastating flooding associated with former Hurricane Irene and former Tropical Storm Lee. Even in this particularly flood-prone region, the events of fall 2011 are perceived to be unique in the known history of the region and marked a turning point in the perceptions of residents about climate change. Here, precipitation and stream gage records are analyzed to determine just how unusual this season was. The historical precipitation gage record requires careful analysis due to the changing availability of stations. After a set of stations is developed that is appropriate for this analysis, events of lengths 1 day, 5 days, and 60 days are analyzed to identify regionally significant events (as opposed to events localized to one basin) since the early 20th century and to evaluate Irene and Lee in that historical context. Gage record results corroborate the perceptions of local residents that the period between 1996 and 2011, and in particular the events of fall 2011, were unprecedented in the last 100 years and as inferred from analyses of regional tree rings, probably in the last 500 years.

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“…It along these lines incorporates ranger service, trim culture, biomass creation for fuel and creature farming. Effects on freshwater and marine frameworks may incorporate consequences for water science [30][31][32][33][34][35][36] with resulting eutrophication and nourishment web adjustment [37][38][39], biocide filtering [40][41][42][43][44][45], suspended burdens from soil disintegration [46], change of the hydrological cycles [47], impacts of unusual species utilized, especially in fish and shellfish culture, and physical alteration of the living space (channelization, station change, bank and seepage) [48]. It is difficult to isolate impacts of horticulture from those of urbanization.…”

Section: Agricultural Land Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Sources and causes of water pollution in Bangladesh: A technical overview

Arefin¹,

Mallik²

2017

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Water pollution is one of the significant dangers to general wellbeing of Bangladesh. Drinking water quality is inadequately overseen and checked. Bangladesh positions at number 86 among 142 countries with respect to drinking water quality. Drinking water sources, both surface and groundwater are debased with coliforms, harmful metals and pesticides all through the nation. Different drinking water quality parameters set by WHO are every now and again damaged. Human wastes, transfer of civil and mechanical wastes and aimless use of agrochemicals in agribusiness are the principle factors affecting the water quality. Microbial and substance contaminations are the primary elements work solely or in mix for different general medical issues. This paper presents a detailed layout of water quality in Bangladesh with unique inflection on significant poisons, sources and causes of pollution. The information introduced in this paper are extracted from different surveys and reports distributed in national and global journals; likewise reports discharged by the government and NGO associations are incorporated.

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Complementary safeguards for robust regional watershed governance in a federation: New York City and its municipal water supply

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Integrated assessment of urban water supply security and resilience: towards a streamlined approach

Integrated assessment of urban water supply security and resilience: towards a streamlined approach

Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee: How Unusual Were They in the Catskill Mountains?

Sources and causes of water pollution in Bangladesh: A technical overview

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