Water Planning for the Uncertain Future: An Interactive Guide to the Use of Methods for Decisionmaking Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) for U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Water Resources Planning

10.7249/tl320 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
Deep Uncertainty ◽  
Water Planning ◽  
Bureau Of Reclamation ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Resources Planning

scholarly journals A Philosophical Justification for a Novel Analysis-Supported, Stakeholder-Driven Participatory Process for Water Resources Planning and Decision Making

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Purkey ◽  
Marisa Escobar Arias ◽  
Vishal Mehta ◽  
Laura Forni ◽  
Nicholas Depsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
Deep Uncertainty ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Proper Role ◽  
Water Management Planning ◽  
Resources Planning

Two trends currently shape water resources planning and decision making: reliance on participatory stakeholder processes to evaluate water management options; and growing recognition that deterministic approaches to the evaluation of options may not be appropriate. These trends pose questions regarding the proper role of information, analysis, and expertise in the inherently social and political process of negotiating agreements and implementing interventions in the water sector. The question of how one might discover the best option in the face of deep uncertainty is compelling. The question of whether the best option even exists to be discovered is more vexing. While such existential questions are not common in the water management community, they are not new to political theory. This paper explores early classical writing related to issues of knowledge and governance as captured in the work of Plato and Aristotle; and then attempts to place a novel, analysis-supported, stakeholder-driven water resources planning and decision making practice within this philosophical discourse, making reference to current decision theory. Examples from the Andes and California, where this practice has been used to structure participation by key stakeholders in water management planning and decision-making, argue that when a sufficiently diverse group of stakeholders is engaged in the decision making process expecting the discovery of the perfect option may not be warranted. Simply discovering a consensus option may be more realistic. The argument touches upon the diversity of preferences, model credibility and the visualization of model output required to explore the implications of various management options across a broad range of inherently unknowable future conditions.

Ground-water models for water resources planning

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
Water Models ◽  
Resources Planning

Aquatic Habitat Analysis as an Element of Water Resources Planning and Management

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 879-890 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin E. Herricks
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Habitat Management ◽  
Aquatic Habitat ◽  
Water Quality Criteria ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Resources Planning

With increased emphasis on environmental quality objectives in water resources planning and management, past practices of simply considering water quality as the only environmental quality objective are inappropriate. Expanded environmental quality objectives include maintenance of high quality aquatic habitat. Water resource systems must provide both physical and chemical conditions appropriate for the propagation and maintenance of healthy diverse aquatic communities. Managing water resources to provide high quality habitat involves planning to meet both water quality and water quantity objectives. Existing technology based water quality controls and stream based water quality criteria can now be supplemented by aquatic habitat management. An approach to aquatic habitat management is illustrated by use of the Incremental Methodology developed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The Incremental Methodology uses measures of aquatic habitat to assess instream flows required for by aquatic life. Thus the range of environmental quality objectives in resources planning and management is expanded by application of these methods to include aquatic habitat as well as water quality management. Methods used to determine instream flow needs for rivers in Illinois are reviewed, and the use of this information in developing regulations limiting water extraction for off stream use are described. Aquatic habitat based management is shown to provide workable methods to meet expanded environmental quality objectives in water resources planning and management.

A Case Study of Group Decision Method for Environmental Foresight and Water Resources Planning Using a Fuzzy Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana X. Halabi ◽  
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres ◽  
Nelson Obregón
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Group Decision ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
Fuzzy Approach ◽  
Decision Method ◽  
Resources Planning

Discussion of “Perspective on National Water Resources Planning”

1963 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-248
Author(s):  
S. T. Harding ◽  
Reed A. Elliot
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
Resources Planning ◽  
National Water

Discussion of “Perspective on National Water Resources Planning”

1962 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 345-346
Author(s):  
Arnold Kent
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
Resources Planning ◽  
National Water

Integrating Water Quality and Water Resources Planning

1974 ◽  
Vol 100 (9) ◽  
pp. 1257-1262
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Kruivak
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Planning ◽  
Resources Planning
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