Sociohydrology: An Effective Way to Reveal the Coupled Evolution of Human and Water Systems

Gu, Jiali; Sun, Shikun; Wang, Yubao; Li, Xiaojuan; Yin, Yupeng; Sun, Jingxin; Qi, Xinyu

doi:10.1007/s11269-021-02984-3

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“…It documents a failed attempt at collaborative water management and identifies vulnerable social groups across local communities who may lack health literacy tools to support informed decision-making. Finally, it expands prior research applying a socio-hydrological lens to the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia by transcending foci on resource management and anthropomorphic impacts on water systems [4]. This is achieved by exploring how water management conditions affect incidental users (recreational water users) and those unwittingly exposed (residents and visitors) to contaminated water, specifically cyanobacteria.…”

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confidence: 88%

Bloomin’ Ridiculous: Climate Change, Water Contamination and Algal Blooms in a Land Down Under

Crampton,

Ragusa

2023

Hydrology

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Climate and anthropogenic change, particularly agricultural runoff, increase blue-green algae/cyanobacteria blooms. This article researches cyanobacteria alert-level identification, management, and risk communication in Lake Hume, Australia. Two methods, document and content analysis, evidence contamination events and risk communication, reflect water governance and data management limitations. Results found that Lake Hume had amber or red alerts for only one week, December 2021–December 2022. This failed to prevent government tourism promotion of recreational usage, contravening water authority red alert advice. Lake-use restrictions lacked compliance enforcement. Events during amber alerts lacked risk communication to vulnerable populations (children). Lake Hume’s governance by the Murray–Darling Basin Authority restricted risk communication to one authority that reproduced generic advice in minimal outlets/time points. Geophysical signage failed to address diversity needs (language, literacy, age, and disabilities). No risk communication was found for residents with diseases exacerbated by aerosolization. Despite WHO promoting cyanotoxin investigation, Australian research is absent in international literature. Further, Lake Hume cyanobacteria produce potentially carcinogenic microcystein. This coexists with census data revealing cancer rates higher than the national average in a waterside town. The results demonstrate the need to incorporate robust public health risk assessments, communication, and management into water management and advocate international legislation changes based on evidence-based research to reduce blooms and prevent agricultural runoff.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Bloomin’ Ridiculous: Climate Change, Water Contamination and Algal Blooms in a Land Down Under

Crampton,

Ragusa

2023

Hydrology

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“…The degree of order in drier years declined, with 2007, 2011, and 2018 seen as more typical. This shows that the natural water system is easily affected by rainfall [47]. The amount of rainfall first affects the number of water resources available for surface water and groundwater.…”

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Assessment and Prediction of the Collaborative Governance of the Water Resources, Water Conservancy Facilities, and Socio-Economic System in the Xiangjiang River Basin, China

Wen,

Li,

Meseretchanie

2023

Water

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The collaborative governance of subsystems within a river basin can play a critical role in addressing challenges, such as water scarcity, soil erosion, flooding, sedimentation, and water pollution, to achieve sustainable utilization of water resources. However, the current literature only focuses on isolated observations of these subsystems, leading to uncertainty and water resource destruction. This paper examines the evolution of the collaborative governance of water resources, water conservancy facilities, and socio-economic systems through self-organization theory in the Xiangjiang River Basin, China. The coupling theory and gray Grey Model (1,1) model were utilized with panel data from 2000 to 2019 to assess and predict the governance synergies of five subsystems: natural water, water conservancy facilities, water resource development and utilization, ecological environment, and socio-economic systems. There are 22 indicators contributing to these subsystems that were selected. The results indicate an S-shaped trend in collaborative governance for water resources, water conservancy facilities, and socio-economic systems. The elements of each subsystem exhibit both synergistic and competitive relationships. The unpredictable precipitation triggers a butterfly effect, changing systemic governance coordination, which closely relates to developing the natural water subsystem. Effective water conservation and regulation of water conservancy facilities are the keys to improving water-use efficiency and safeguarding water ecology. This study provides insights into the collaborative governance among subsystems and the evolution of the water resources, water conservancy facilities, and socio-economic systems in the Xiangjiang River Basin to promote sustainable water resource utilization.

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“…To consistently understand socio‐hydrological connections, multiple hydrological variables and subsystems need to be considered in order to capture and decipher their hydrological inter‐linkages (Ghajarnia et al., 2021; Orth, 2018), in combination with their interactions with human activities and societal water aspects. Moreover, different scales and parts of the world need to be accounted for, since human‐water system interactions work simultaneously across these, for example, by virtual water use with water embedded in traded goods (Gu et al., 2021; Konar et al., 2019; Wu et al., 2017) and energy system choices (Engström et al., 2021).…”

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Distinguishing Direct Human‐Driven Effects on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle

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Sociohydrology: An Effective Way to Reveal the Coupled Evolution of Human and Water Systems

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Bloomin’ Ridiculous: Climate Change, Water Contamination and Algal Blooms in a Land Down Under

Bloomin’ Ridiculous: Climate Change, Water Contamination and Algal Blooms in a Land Down Under

Assessment and Prediction of the Collaborative Governance of the Water Resources, Water Conservancy Facilities, and Socio-Economic System in the Xiangjiang River Basin, China

Distinguishing Direct Human‐Driven Effects on the Global Terrestrial Water Cycle

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