Missing and neglected links in water management

Biswas, Asit K.

doi:10.2166/wst.2001.0174

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“…The identification of problems is the same for China as for the UK or the USA; the solutions proposed are the same too, despite their different physical, economic, social, legal and institutional conditions. The water problems in China may indeed be similar to those in western Europe; however, solutions that work efficiently in western Europe may be inefficient or ineffective in China (Biswas, 2001). We now turn to consider these different conditions.…”

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“…There, systems of transferable water rights have improved the efficiency of water use, but are new and remain imperfect (Dinar and Mody, 2004;Matthews, 2004;Pigram, 1999;Smith, 1998) and have to be very carefully tailored to local institutional and environmental conditions (Haddad, 2000b). Yet, even if this policy instrument works in some countries, it will not necessarily work in China: externally driven solutions to water problems in developing countries tend to correct the least relevant problems in the least practical way (Biswas, 2001;Pigram, 1999). The potential for such a system of transferable water rights in China needs to be assessed against China's different political structure, national goals, legal system, degree of rural development, property rights institutions, resource management capacity, and water demand and supply.…”

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Pricing China's irrigation water

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Global Environmental Change

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Pricing China's irrigation water

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Barnett

Finlayson

et al. 2008

Global Environmental Change

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“…While Biswas (2001) argues that the concern with water supply to megacities may be misplaced, as they are sufficiently powerful in political, economic and institutional terms to be able to effectively deal with these problems, this has not yet been reflected in significant improvements (Bakker 2010). The continuing rapid urban expansion of Shanghai has led to declining water (and air) quality, such that the abundant water locally available in the city cannot be used for water supply (Zhao et al, 2006) and water must be sourced from elsewhere.…”

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The drivers of risk to water security in Shanghai

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Big cities are often said to have big water problems, and Shanghai is no exception. In this paper we examine and compare the influence of the major factors that give rise to the risk of water insecurity in Shanghai. There is an extensive and diverse literature on these issues, dealt with in isolation, and here we provide a synthesis of the literature, together with our own assessments and calculations, to assess what are the risks to Shanghai's water supply and what is our degree of confidence in this assessment. We describe the systems that supply water to the city, and past and future changes in the systems, including changes in the glaciers that supply some water to the river, changes in climate, changes in land use, the construction of dams, and water diversions. We show how, at the same time as Shanghai is increasing its dependence on the Yangtze river, water diversions and sea-level rise are increasing the risk that this water will be too saline to consume at certain times of the year. This analysis suggests that most of the major drivers of the risk to water security in Shanghai are within the power of environmental managers to control.

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“…Despite Spain's commitment to sustainable principles in its water management, local implementation of these principles is problematic (Biswas, 2001). Some success has been recorded elsewhere in Spain with agroenvironmental schemes led by sustainable imperatives (Onate et al, 1998) and with land-use planning (Marshall, 1994).…”

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Drought management in the Río Guadalhorce region of Andalucía, southern Spain

Roberts

2002

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The Guadalhorce catchment is characterized by hydrological extremes, severe flooding which has intermittently devastated the coastal conurbation of Málaga and riparian settlements upstream and periodic droughts of several years' duration. The region is also affected locally by high levels of salinity in soils and water. Attempts to manage this situation to permit economic development through agriculture and industry over several centuries seemed to have ameliorated the worst excesses and during the 20th century a series of major dam projects offered the potential for sustainable future economic growth. However, rapid population growth and shifting patterns of agriculture have brought the question of sustainability back on to the agenda.This paper analyses the hydrological characteristics of the severe drought of the mid-1990s, in terms of its impacts both on water quantity and water quality in the region. The strategies adopted to maintain domestic and tourist water supplies in the face of high demands from irrigation, particularly looking at the conjunctive use of groundwater, and the development of regional water grids are evaluated. The pressures on water quality, which developed in various parts of the Guadalhorce hydrological system, including in the main water supply network for the city, are also explored.The paper concludes that the demands on the water supply system are unlikely to be manageable through current strategies and that ecological and water quality issues will probably prove more critical than water volumes in determining approaches to management of future droughts.

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Missing and neglected links in water management

Abstract: In the current revolution in water management; issues that must be addressed include both urbanisation and ruralisation, water quality, and globalisation and energy policy. Water management must struggle against inappropriate research, myths and inadequate data.

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Pricing China's irrigation water

Pricing China's irrigation water

The drivers of risk to water security in Shanghai

Drought management in the Río Guadalhorce region of Andalucía, southern Spain

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