A Call to Enhance the Resiliency of the Nation’s Water Management

Warner, Andrew T.; Opperman, Jeffrey J.; Pietrowsky, Robert A.

doi:10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000151

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“…To maintain equivalent levels of flood protection, the Corps, TNC, and partners carried out targeted and voluntary floodplain acquisitions and easements downstream of the reservoir, through a mix of public and private funding. Through this process, changing the management of specific floodplain parcels increased the operational flexibility of the dam and facilitated the release of environmental flows (Warner et al, 2011).…”

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Securing Environmental Flows Through System Reoperation and Management: Lessons From Case Studies of Implementation

Opperman

Kendy

Barrios³

2019

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Water-management infrastructure, such as dams, diversions, and levees, provides important benefits to society, including energy, flood management, and water supply, but this infrastructure is a primary cause of the decline of freshwater ecosystems and the services they provide. Due to these declines, recent attention has focused on improving the environmental performance of water infrastructure, such as modifying the location, design, or operation of infrastructure to maintain or restore environmental flows. Despite growing attention to the importance of environmental flows, and continued advancement in flow assessment methods, implementation of flow protection or restoration has lagged expectations. In this paper we describe how pursuing environmental flows at the scale of infrastructure systems, rather than individual sites, such as a dam, offers two pathways to increased implementation of environmental flows. First, policy and management mechanisms that apply to large areas-river basins or political jurisdictions-can catalyze large-scale implementation of flow protection or restoration. We provide two examples of system-scale policy and management mechanisms: flow protection policies and system-scale hydropower planning and management. Although system-scale policy and management offer a clear path to large-scale implementation, there will continue to be a need for flow implementation that occurs at smaller scales, such as a high priority river reach. The second pathway focuses on implementation at that scale-such as environmental flow releases from a dam or small set of dams-but embeds dam reoperation or site-scale flow implementation within reoperation of the larger systems of resource management within which the dam or ecosystem is located. These systems of resource management can encompass various sectors and here we provide examples of dam reoperation or flow implementation facilitated by solutions that included changes to the management of (1) water supply systems; (2) floodplains; and (3) irrigation systems. We illustrate both of these system-scale pathways through a set of case studies, drawn primarily from North America, each of which includes an example of current implementation.

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Securing Environmental Flows Through System Reoperation and Management: Lessons From Case Studies of Implementation

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Kendy

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2019

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“…Uncertainty caused by climate change is intensifying water crises, especially in cities with water shortages. Because of this, Warner et al [6] called for enhanced resiliency of water management instead of depending on hydrological water capacity. Pahl-Wostl [7] proposed a conceptual framework for analyzing adaptive capacity.…”

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Water Resource Scarcity and Social Adaptive Capacity for Regional Sustainable Development - A Case Study of Beijing and Tianjin

Zhang

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The adaptive capacity to water resource scarcity is closely connected to social and economic issues and it is one of the key factors of the regional sustainable development. Accurate evaluation of the adaptive capacity is an important factor to understand the development potential of a region. Through introducing the concept of social adaptive ability, this paper combines social adaptive ability with the dynamic evaluation of water resource scarcity and sustainable supply capacity as a new evaluation method. The data from two provincial-level municipalities of China (Beijing and Tianjin) are selected as a case to evaluate regional sustainable development. The results show that social adaptive ability can increase water supply capacity and provide strong support for regional sustainable development.

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Finding solutions to water scarcity: Incorporating ecosystem service values into business planning at The Dow Chemical Company’s Freeport, TX facility

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A Call to Enhance the Resiliency of the Nation’s Water Management

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Securing Environmental Flows Through System Reoperation and Management: Lessons From Case Studies of Implementation

Securing Environmental Flows Through System Reoperation and Management: Lessons From Case Studies of Implementation

Water Resource Scarcity and Social Adaptive Capacity for Regional Sustainable Development - A Case Study of Beijing and Tianjin

Finding solutions to water scarcity: Incorporating ecosystem service values into business planning at The Dow Chemical Company’s Freeport, TX facility

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