Inter‐basin water transfers in the United States

Micklin, Philip

doi:10.1080/07900628408722314

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“…Progress in Physical Geography 0(0) (Ahmadi et al, 2019;Alagh et al, 2006;Biswas, 2001Biswas, , 2008Bozorg-Haddad et al, 2020;De Andrade et al, 2011;Gichuki and McCornick, 2008;Gupta and Van der Zaag, 2008;Hirji, 1998;Islar and Boda, 2014;Kibiiy and Ndambuki, 2015;Krueger et al, 2007;Lafreniere et al, 2013;Liu and Ma, 1983;Micklin, 1984;Montoya, 2010;Narain, 2000 (Nagler et al, 2016). Some studies suggest that schemes have little or no impact on water quality or discharge following water diversions (Zhao et al, 2020).…”

Section: Socio-economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model

Rollason

Sinha

Bracken

2021

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Water scarcity is a global issue, affecting in excess of four billion people. Interbasin Water Transfer (IBWT) is an established method for increasing water supply by transferring excess water from one catchment to another, water-scarce catchment. The implementation of IBWT peaked in the 1980s and was accompanied by a robust academic debate of its impacts. A recent resurgence in the popularity of IBWT, and particularly the promotion of mega-scale schemes, warrants revisiting this technology. This paper provides an updated review, building on previously published work, but also incorporates learning from schemes developed since the 1980s. We examine the spatial and temporal distribution of schemes and their drivers, review the arguments for and against the implementation of IBWT schemes and examine conceptual models for assessing IBWT schemes. Our analysis suggests that IBWT is growing in popularity as a supply-side solution for water scarcity and is likely to represent a key tool for water managers into the future. However, we argue that IBWT cannot continue to be delivered through current approaches, which prioritise water-centric policies and practices at the expense of social and environmental concerns. We critically examine the Socio-Ecological Systems and Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus models as new conceptual models for conceptualising and assessing IBWT. We conclude that neither model offers a comprehensive solution. Instead, we propose an enhanced WEF model (eWEF) to facilitate a more holistic assessment of how these mega-scale engineering interventions are integrated into water management strategies. The proposed model will help water managers, decision-makers, IBWT funders and communities create more sustainable IBWT schemes.

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Section: Socio-economic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model

Rollason

Sinha

Bracken

2021

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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“…Overarching concerns relate to the decision-making processes, especially the rationale used to justify these mega-scale projects. Existing projects have been challenged for using incorrect data inputs (Gichuki and McCornick, 2008;Micklin, 1984), or for relying on data at spatial (Gupta and Zaag, 2008) and temporal (Smakhtin et al, 2007) resolutions that do not map onto the scale of the project, which can lead to inaccurate assessment of water availability (Micklin, 1984) and demand (Liu and Ma, 1983). A lack of robust methods has been exacerbated by concerns that governance of schemes lacks transparency (Thakkar and Chaturvedi, 2006;UNESCO, 1999), and that there are large discrepancies in the power and influence that different water users have in scheme planning and design, and the allocation of water resources post-construction (Abed-Elmdoust and Kerachian, 2014).…”

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“…These people tend to have low-incomes or be from indigenous communities (Das, 2006;Patekar and Parekh, 2006) and their emotional, cultural and livelihood losses, and loss of valued land, are routinely neglected by IBWT planners (McCully, 2001;Singh, 2002). Resettled communities tend not to benefit from IBWT projects, which instead favour large-scale projects such as irrigation (Micklin, 1984). Such irrigation projects often promote the development of overreliance on cash crops for export, with consequent limitations on the sustainability and resilience of agricultural economies (Howe, 1977;WWF, 2007WWF, , 2002.…”

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A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes

Sinha

Rollason

Bracken

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…The contiguous United States also has significant spatial differences in the distribution of water resources, being commonly divided into the 'Eastern' and 'Western' portions on the basis of climatic conditions (Micklin, 1984). During the latter part of the 19th century, the 100° meridian west of Greenwich was proposed as the demarcation line for development of different water management strategies for the Eastern (more humid) and Western (more arid/semi-arid) sides (Volkman and Lee, 1988).…”

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“…A major reason for that has been achieved with the development of water supply infrastructure to enable inter-basin water transfers in both the U.S. and Brazil. In the U.S., such inter-basin water transfers have been implemented, chiefly for hydroelectric, municipal, and irrigation purposes (Micklin, 1984), and developments of this kind of infrastructure have expanded the scale of management planning. At large scales, in particular, trans-basin river diversion projects have resulted in considerable controversy and conflict due to losses and damages in the region where water comes from (basin of origin), and conflicts of interest, not to mention project delays and cancellation (Yevjevich, 2001).…”

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Assessment of water security using conceptual, deterministic and stochastic frameworks

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First, my deepest gratitude to God, the bible's author, who gives me hope and strength day by day. I know is difficult to express my huge gratitude to all friends and colleagues who directly and indirectly supported me during my doctorate period, but I am going to try using few words. I hope I will not forget anyone! I thank to Professor Eduardo Mario Mendiondo, my advisor, for giving me good opportunities to grow up personally and professionally, including my participation in both Graduate Programs in Brazil and the USA. Then, I thank to Professor Hoshin V. Gupta, my supervisor at The University of Arizona, who gave me the honor to work with and impressive lessons of being a top researcher, collaborator and a mentor. My very special thank to Danielle A. Bressiani, my lab colleague, that was (and is) an essential friend, with whom I shared life issues, technical discussions, and I could enjoy the advice from the "SWAT Queen"! I am also grateful for all other precious colleagues of my research group (NIBH) at University of São Paulo, who made my workdays much better, and sometimes funnier, such as:

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Inter‐basin water transfers in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model

Interbasin water transfer in a changing world: A new conceptual model

A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes

Assessment of water security using conceptual, deterministic and stochastic frameworks

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