scholarly journals Planning and Implementation of a Public Participation Process Towards the Development of the Anthemountas River Basin Water Management Plan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Pavlidou ◽  
S. Famellos ◽  
M. Makraki ◽  
A. Deliyannis
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Basin Water ◽  
Participation Process

scholarly journals Stakeholders Reach Consensus in Troubled Waters

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Rugel
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
United States ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Freshwater Biodiversity ◽  
Transboundary Waters ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Basin Water

Surface water and groundwater catchments rarely align with the boundaries of cities, states, or nations. More often, water runs through, over, and under man-made sociopolitical divisions, making the governance of transboundary waters a formidable task. Although much of the public conversation regarding the availability and management of shared waters may appear to be dire (e.g., reports of “water wars”), there are transboundary basin water management strategies across the globe which offer hope. These include the efforts of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Stakeholders (ACFS) in the southeastern United States, which may serve as a useful template for future conversations around the water sharing table. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Basin (ACF Basin) is a vital economic engine in the southeastern United States. The waters of the ACF are shared between three states—Alabama, Florida, and Georgia—and harbor some of the richest freshwater biodiversity in North America, including sturgeon, rock bass, madtom, sculpin, bass, darters, and the highest densities of freshwater mussels in the world. Many of these are species of concern or threatened or endangered species; therefore, water management strategies in multiple portions of the ACF must comply with habitat protection plans under the U.S. Environmental Protection Act of 1970 (https://www.enr.gov.nt.ca/en/environmental-protection-act). The ACFS was organized in 2009 in the hopes of overcoming a decades-long stalemate between Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, regarding the use of shared waters in the ACF Basin. Despite years of litigious relationships among these three states, the ACFS managed to bring a diverse and previously contentious set of water users to the table and build consensus on a shared water management plan for the entire ACF Basin. While the ACFS holds no regulatory power, they made more progress in breaking through existing distrust and deadlock than any previous efforts in this basin to date. In the end, they developed cooperation, respect, and a sustainable and adaptive water management plan which included input and buy-in from all identified water sectors in the ACF Basin. It is, therefore, a valuable exercise to examine the ACFS model and contemplate whether it contains exportable methodologies for other catchments challenged with managing transboundary waters.

scholarly journals Quantifying the Process and Performance of River Basin Water Management Decentralisation in Sub-Saharan Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-299
Author(s):  
Ariel Dinar ◽  
Javier Ortiz Correa ◽  
Stefano Farolfi ◽  
Joao Mutondo
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Basin Water ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals Dynamic modelling of the climate change impact in the Conchos River basin water management

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polioptro F. Martínez-Austria ◽  
◽  
Alberto Vargas-Hidalgo ◽  
Carlos Patiño-Gómez ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Climate Change Impact ◽  
Dynamic Modelling ◽  
Basin Water ◽  
Change Impact

Integrated modelling of nitrate loads to coastal waters and land rent applied to catchment-scale water management

2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Refsgaard ◽  
T. Jacobsen ◽  
B. Jacobsen ◽  
J.-E. Ørum
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
River Basin Management ◽  
Integrated Modelling ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
Basin Management ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Water Management Plans ◽  
Basin Water ◽  
Modelling Approach

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires an integrated approach to river basin management in order to meet environmental and ecological objectives. This paper presents concepts and full-scale application of an integrated modelling framework. The Ringkoebing Fjord basin is characterized by intensive agricultural production and leakage of nitrate constitute a major pollution problem with respect groundwater aquifers (drinking water), fresh surface water systems (water quality of lakes) and coastal receiving waters (eutrophication). The case study presented illustrates an advanced modelling approach applied in river basin management. Point sources (e.g. sewage treatment plant discharges) and distributed diffuse sources (nitrate leakage) are included to provide a modelling tool capable of simulating pollution transport from source to recipient to analyse the effects of specific, localized basin water management plans. The paper also includes a land rent modelling approach which can be used to choose the most cost-effective measures and the location of these measures. As a forerunner to the use of basin-scale models in WFD basin water management plans this project demonstrates the potential and limitations of comprehensive, integrated modelling tools.

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