Rethinking Water Management

Innovative Approaches to Contemporary Issues

By: Caroline Figueres (Editor), Johan Rockstrom (Editor), Cecilia Tortajada (Editor)

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If water resources are to be distributed efficiently, equitably and cost-effectively in this rapidly changing world, then it is clear that current water management practices are no longer feasible. Innovative approaches are required to meet the increasing water demands of a growing world population and economy and the needs of the ecosystems supporting them.

New approaches have to be employed at global, national and local levels. In Rethinking Water Management, a new generation of water experts from around the world examine the critical challenges confronting the water profession, including rainwater and groundwater management, recycling and reuse, water rights, transboundary access to water and financing of water. They offer important new perspectives on the use, management and conservation of fresh water, in terms of both quantity and quality, for the domestic, agricultural and industrial sectors, and show how a new set of paradigms can be applied to successfully manage water for the future.

Caroline Figu�res is Head of the Urban Infrastructure Department at UNESCO-IHE Water Education Institute in The Netherlands. Cecilia Tortajada is Vice President of the Third World Centre for Water Management in Mexico and Vice President-elect of the International Water Resources Association. Johan Rockstrom is Water Resources Expert at UNESCO-IHE.

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List of figures, tables and boxes	p. vi
About the contributors	p. vii
Foreword	p. viii
List of acronyms and abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Rethinking development paradigms for the water sector	p. 8
Introduction	p. 8
Sustainable development	p. 10
Environmental sustainability of water projects	p. 15
Case study of Mexico	p. 18
Conclusions	p. 21
References	p. 23
Global and local agendas in water management: From vision to action	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
Global-local agendas in water management: Theory and practice	p. 27
Research questions	p. 29
Recommended actions: New regionalism for water management in the Middle East	p. 35
Conclusions	p. 37
References	p. 38
Balancing between the eternal yesterday and the eternal tomorrow: Economic globalization, water and equity	p. 41
Introduction	p. 41
The different aspects of globalization	p. 43
Economic globalization and water	p. 46
Conclusions and recommendations	p. 62
Notes	p. 65
References	p. 66
Managing rain for the future	p. 70
Introduction	p. 70
Water and food security: Sorting out the facts	p. 72
Making more food with the same rainfall	p. 78
Win-win solutions based on integrated rain management	p. 87
Conclusions	p. 94
Notes	p. 98
References	p. 98
Recycling and reuse of 'derivative water' under conditions of scarcity and competition	p. 102
Introduction	p. 102
Bridging the scarcity divide: Recycling secondary or 'derivative' water	p. 103
Management and policy options for effluent irrigation	p. 109
Case descriptions of planned and unplanned reuse	p. 112
Conclusions: Next generation issues for derivative water use	p. 115
Notes	p. 116
References	p. 117
Rethinking groundwater management	p. 120
Introduction	p. 120
Detrimental impacts of groundwater non-management	p. 122
A shift in groundwater management approaches: Towards providing incentives for more sustainable use	p. 125
Conclusions	p. 140
Notes	p. 141
References	p. 142
Water rights and their management: A comparative country study and its implication for China	p. 144
Introduction	p. 144
Legal and economic aspects of property rights	p. 145
Water resources as common pool resources	p. 146
Typical water rights assignments and their characteristics	p. 149
Water rights reform in China: Theoretical and practical explorations towards efficient water resources management	p. 156
Conclusions	p. 160
Notes	p. 163
References	p. 163
The present and future of transboundary water management	p. 164
Introduction	p. 164
The transboundary freshwater dispute database	p. 165
International institutions and indicators of conflict	p. 168
Baskets of benefits	p. 171
Why might the future look nothing like the past?	p. 173
Conclusion: What types of policy recommendations can one make?	p. 176
Notes	p. 178
References	p. 178
Forgetting political boundaries in identifying water development potentials in the basin-wide approach: The Ganges-Bhahmaputra-Meghna issues	p. 180
Introduction	p. 180
Regional water-based development context	p. 182
Regional water-resource utilization issues	p. 184
Regional water-based development potentials	p. 188
Broad-based conclusions and recommendations	p. 196
Notes	p. 197
References	p. 198
Let's pump money in the water sector!	p. 199
Introduction	p. 199
Today's four major challenges	p. 200
Suggested actions to improve the situation	p. 212
Conclusions	p. 224
Notes	p. 225
References	p. 226
Conclusion: The way forward	p. 228
Entry point to sustainable water management	p. 228
Change of water paradigm is required	p. 229
Sharing common water resources: Paradigm shifts in the light of globalization	p. 230
The future water manager	p. 231
Sustainable development: From rhetoric to action	p. 232
Rain is water: Broadening the resource base	p. 232
Innovative management options	p. 233
Invisible water resources: The need for new action	p. 234
Water rights and user involvement	p. 234
Capacity building and knowledge shifts towards integrating water management	p. 235
The inter-generation challenge	p. 236
Index	p. 237
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