Deficits in implementing integrated water resources management in South Africa: The role of institutional interplay

Lukat, Evelyn; Pahl‐Wostl, Claudia; Lenschow, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2022.06.010

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“…Given the intricate interplay between formal and informal systems, institutions exert substantial influence over water resource management, with prior research advocating an analysis of informal institutions before policy reform [13]. Nevertheless, fragmented institutions pose coordination and funding challenges, prompting suggestions to centralize and unify these bodies, particularly in the face of climate changeinduced uncertainties.…”

Section: Public Satisfaction With Water Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Factor of Water Consumption Regarding the Impact and Implementation of Water Governance in Urban Areas

Juwana,

Lazuardi,

Herdiansyah

2024

IJEI

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Water governance becomes essential to meet societal needs despite water scarcity. However, in Indonesia, disparities in water governance, especially in the area of water quality perception, continue to exist. Therefore, this study investigates how water quality perception is influenced by examining key factors such as satisfaction, trust, and socioeconomic status. This study was conducted in Jakarta by surveying through a questionnaire. This study employed satisfaction, trust, and socio-economic status as independent variables and the perception of water quality as a dependent variable. Also, the chi-square test and ordinal logistic regression were employed to test the hypothesis and the significance between independent and dependent variables. Chi-square tests reveal correlations between trust, socioeconomic status, and perception of water quality. However, regression analysis highlights socio-economic status and trust as the primary influential factors. The study provides evidence of unequal access to water across different socio-economic statuses and demonstrates how the need for government transparency and trust in water institutions affects urban communities' perceptions of water quality.

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Section: Public Satisfaction With Water Institutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the Factor of Water Consumption Regarding the Impact and Implementation of Water Governance in Urban Areas

Juwana,

Lazuardi,

Herdiansyah

2024

IJEI

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“…In recent decades, collaborative and participatory approaches have been widely applied to promote IWRM and adaptive management. However, their utilization in the Global South [10,11] has been limited compared to the United States and Europe [12].…”

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Unveiling water allocation dynamics: a text analysis of 25 years of stakeholder meetings

Nunes Carvalho,

Souza Filho,

Madruga de Brito

2024

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Managing water resources in regions with high climate variability and frequent extreme weather events poses challenges for policymakers. To facilitate water allocation in these cases, participatory and collaborative decision-making approaches have become common. However, the evaluation of these approaches is hindered by the lack of structured methods and data to understand them. To address this knowledge gap, we propose a novel methodology that leverages text data to identify key topics, conflicts, and influential actors that shape water allocation dynamics. Our methodology is tested using records of 1020 water basin committee meetings held between 1997 and 2021 across twelve basin committees in Ceará, Brazil – a region known for its extensive history of droughts that have impacted water governance. To uncover key water management issues discussed during these meetings, we employed a three-step topic modeling framework: (1) sentence embedding, (2) dimensionality reduction, and (3) sentence clustering. Furthermore, we used entity recognition, dependency parsing, and network graphs to identify powerful actors influencing these meetings and, ultimately, the decisions taken. Our findings revealed stakeholders’ heightened concern for urban water supply over agricultural demand during droughts. We found that “reservoir operation” was the most recurring topic, especially in basins where the strategic reservoirs are located. Discussions related to “climate information” became significantly more important over time, which indicates that water allocation decisions are increasingly based on the seasonal forecast and data on oceanic indices provided by the meteorology agency. Despite the presence of local users in the committees, governmental representatives dominated the discussions and were central in all river basins. In conclusion, our proposed approach harnesses existing text data to uncover spatiotemporal patterns related to participatory water allocation. This study opens new avenues for investigating water governance using text-based analysis.

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“…South Africa, which is classified as a water-stressed country, receives an average of 465 mm of rainfall per year, which is not only unevenly distributed across time and space, but also well below the global average (Donnenfeld et al, 2018;Knight, 2019). Moreover, partly due to failures in implementing an agenda of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), water availability in South Africa is further constrained by persistent-and, by all accounts, worsening-water quality problems that are largely anthropogenic in nature (CSIR, 2010;King et al, 2018;Palmer & Munnik, 2018;du Plessis, 2019b;du Preez & van Huyssteen, 2020;Stuart-Hill et al, 2020;DWS, 2022a;Lukat et al, 2022;du Plessis, 2023). The most prominent water quality issues-which include eutrophication, salinisation, acidification, turbidity, sedimentation, and bacteriological contamination-are typically linked to runoff from urban areas and informal settlements, discharges and/or spills from wastewater treatment works and industrial sites, effluent from mining operations, and return flows from agricultural land and commercial forestry plantations (Griffin et al, 2014;King et al, 2018;du Preez & van Huyssteen, 2020;DWS, 2022a;Day & Davies, 2023;du Plessis, 2023).…”

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Estimating Thresholds of Natural Vegetation for the Protection of Water Quality in South African Catchments

Locke

2024

Preprint

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Many of South Africa’s water quality problems are directly attributable to the negative impacts of anthropogenic land use transformations, including urban and agricultural expansion. To mitigate these impacts, the preservation of an adequate amount of natural vegetation within catchment areas is an important management strategy. However, it is unclear how much natural vegetation cover is required to provide adequate levels of protection, nor at which scale(s) this strategy would be most effective. Accordingly, regression analysis was used to model relationships between water quality (measured using Nemerow’s Pollution Index) and metrics of natural vegetation at multiple scales across a sample of sub-catchments located within South Africa’s Eastern and Western Cape provinces. With conspicuous outliers removed, the models were able to explain between 69 and 82% of variation in the sample. Moreover, a statistically significant, nonlinear, and inverse relationship was found between proportions of natural vegetation cover and pollution levels. This relationship was strongest when measured (1) across the whole catchment and (2) within a 200 m riparian buffer zone. The models further indicated that approximately 80 to 90% natural vegetation cover was necessary at these scales to maintain water quality at ecologically acceptable levels. Additional nonlinear thresholds estimated using breakpoint analysis suggested that if proportions of natural vegetation fall below 45% (across the whole catchment) and 60% (within a 200 m riparian buffer zone) a dramatic increase in pollution levels can be expected.

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Deficits in implementing integrated water resources management in South Africa: The role of institutional interplay

Cited by 19 publications

References 43 publications

Investigating the Factor of Water Consumption Regarding the Impact and Implementation of Water Governance in Urban Areas

Investigating the Factor of Water Consumption Regarding the Impact and Implementation of Water Governance in Urban Areas

Unveiling water allocation dynamics: a text analysis of 25 years of stakeholder meetings

Estimating Thresholds of Natural Vegetation for the Protection of Water Quality in South African Catchments

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