Economic accounting of water: The Botswana experience

Setlhogile, Tshepo; Arntzen, Jaap W.; Pule, O.B.

doi:10.1016/j.pce.2016.10.007

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“…• In Botswana and South Africa, reduced per-capita potable water use has been reported in cities [3,72].…”

Section: Persisting With Water Conservation Behaviorsmentioning

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Promoting Water Conservation: Where to from here?

Moglia¹,

Cook²,

Tapsuwan³

2018

Water

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This paper reports on a review of international water conservation efforts, but with a particular focus on the Australian context. The aim is to take stock of the current understanding of water conservation, in particular: what influences people's decision to conserve water, what influences whether people persist with water conservation behavior and what contributes to awareness and familiarity of water conservation behaviors. We also explore how all these factors jointly can achieve water savings over time, and the efficacy of past efforts to save water. Subsequently, this is used to identify where leading practice for managing water conservation is heading, which we argue is the application of recent developments in behavioral science and advances in smart metering to personalize water conservation programs. To support individualized water conservation efforts, we need more longitudinal studies of water conservation behavior, a greater focus on behavioral science, as well as the development of modelling tools that embed insights and lessons of this research into decision support capability. This can help to develop the capacity to better implement water conservation programs that respond to short-term water scarcity crises, such as droughts, while also providing persistent reductions in per-capita water demand that can help meet strategic water planning needs, such as deferring or downsizing capital investment in supply infrastructure to accommodate demands associated with population growth.

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“…• In Botswana and South Africa, reduced per-capita potable water use has been reported in cities [3,72].…”

Section: Persisting With Water Conservation Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the US and Canada, there is a decline in per-capita water use across many cities [66][67][68][69] In Botswana and South Africa, reduced per-capita potable water use has been reported in cities [3,72].…”

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Promoting Water Conservation: Where to from here?

Moglia¹,

Cook²,

Tapsuwan³

2018

Water

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“…Over the past decades IWRM has emerged as the top priority on the international agenda, transforming the landscape in which agricultural policies must operate, accounting for environmental requirements and sustainability of water use (Mulwafu and Msosa, 2005; Özerol et al ., 2012; Setlhogile et al ., 2017). Despite the continuing debate over its implementation, the IWRM concept is still entrenched in the United Nations 2030 Agenda on sustainable development.…”

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Dilemmas of integrated water resources management implementation in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia: irrigation development versus environmental flows

Mersha

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Masih

et al. 2020

Water & Environment J

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Environmental flows allocation is an intrinsic part of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). This paper analyses socio‐political issues and effects of environmental flows integration on water availability under the context of increased agricultural intensification in an effort to tackle food insecurity. Lack of appropriate framework comprising the procedural requirements and strategic directions as well as prevalence of politically motivated ad hoc development programmes are among major challenges identified. Introducing environmental flows to a perceived satisfactory level would result in a significant increase of unmet irrigation water demand, yet, “productivity first” norm overtakes. This is presumed to be due to skewed focus on irrigation expansion and low awareness on the possible consequences. The particular challenges highlighted generally unveil the inherent contradictions in the IWRM concept putting its claim that the set of principles and entire course stand universally accepted as a means to balance socio‐economic and environmental outcomes under question.

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“…On the other hand, water supply is strongly connected to economic development [14]. Setlhogile et al [15] found the total water consumption for households and mines (80.2 Mm 3 ) is higher than that of agricultural sector (70.2 Mm 3 ) in Botswana.…”

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Impacts of Strict Cropland Protection on Water Yield: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

Wang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Land use and land cover change is a critical factor of ecosystem services, while water yield plays a vital role in sustainable development. The impact of urban expansion on water yield has long been discussed, but water yield change resulting from cropland protection is seldom concerned. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the impacts of cropland protection on water yield by comparing the water yield in two cropland protection scenarios (i.e., Strict Cropland Protection scenario and No Cropland Protection scenario). Specifically, the LAND System Cellular Automata for Potential Effects (LANDSCAPE) model was employed to simulate land use maps in the two scenarios, while Water Yield module in the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST) model was used to calculate water yield. The results show water yield would increase by 8.7 × 107 m3 in the No Cropland Protection scenario and 9.4 × 107 m3 in the Strict Cropland Protection scenario. We conclude that implementation of strict cropland protection in rapid urbanizing areas may cause more water yield, which is also a prerequisite of potential urban flooding risk. This study throws that it is not wise to implement strict cropland protection policy in an area of rapid urbanization.

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Economic accounting of water: The Botswana experience

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

Promoting Water Conservation: Where to from here?

Promoting Water Conservation: Where to from here?

Dilemmas of integrated water resources management implementation in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia: irrigation development versus environmental flows

Impacts of Strict Cropland Protection on Water Yield: A Case Study of Wuhan, China

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