Hydrosolidarity and beyond: can ethics and equity find a place in today's water resource management?

Gerlak, Andrea K.; Varady, Robert G.; Petit, Olivier; Haverland, Arin C.

doi:10.1080/02508060.2011.586552

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“…The contributions to the seminar were published in Water International in June 2000 with hydrosolidarity as the leading theme of the issue. It is worth adding that the interest in hydrosolidarity has continued, as reflected by a recent article in that journal by Gerlak and her colleagues (Gerlak et al 2011).…”

Section: Conceptual Development Around Water and Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Early focus on water strategies for the twenty-first century: IWRA as an interdisciplinary forerunner

Falkenmark

2011

Water International

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Section: Conceptual Development Around Water and Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Early focus on water strategies for the twenty-first century: IWRA as an interdisciplinary forerunner

Falkenmark

2011

Water International

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“…As opposed to “ hidase ” or nationalism that can be seen as a top‐down national‐scale ideology, the notion of hydrosolidarity has been launched as a way to guarantee water access from an equitable standpoint (Lundqvist 1999; Gerlak et al 2009; 2011). Hydrosolidarity builds on human ethics and person to person empathy which is a bottom‐up approach and implies that water use will not jeopardize the use of water by downstream riparians (Falkenmark 2005; Falkenmark et al 2009).…”

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The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Is There a Meeting Point between Nationalism and Hydrosolidarity?

Abdelhady

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Contemporary Water Research

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The soon‐to‐be completed Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which will be the largest hydroelectric power plant and among the largest reservoirs in Africa, has highlighted the need for expanding traditional integrated water resources management to better include the cultural, social, and political complexities of large water infrastructure in development projects. The GERD will store a maximum of 74 billion cubic meters of water corresponding to approximately the average annual outflow of the Nile from the Aswan high dam. Undoubtedly, the GERD will be vital for energy production and a key factor for food production, economic development, and poverty reduction in Ethiopia and the Nile Basin. However, the GERD is also a political statement that in one stroke has re‐written the hydropolitical map of the Nile Basin. The GERD has become a symbol of Ethiopian nationalism or “renaissance” (hidase in Amharic). A contrasting concept to nationalism is hydrosolidarity. This concept has been put forward to better stress equitable use of water in international water management challenges that would lead to sustainable socioeconomic development. We use the opposing notions of nationalism and hydrosolidarity at three different scales, everyday politics, state policies, and interstate and global politics to analyse some aspects of the new hydropolitical map of the Nile Basin. We argue that nationalism and national interests are not necessarily negative standpoints but that there may instead be a meeting point where regional and national interests join with hydrosolidarity principles. We believe that this meeting point can maximize not only the common good, but also the good from a national interest point of view. For this, it is important not increase collaboration instead of being locked in to the historical narrative of nationalistic culture and historical discourse. This would benefit and improve future sustainability.

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“…Co-evolution is characterized by emergent properties in social and hydrologic systems, the focus of which in this paper are emergent water norms (cf. Falkenmark and Folke, 2010;Gerlak et al, 2011). Sivapalan et al (2012) identified three main lines of sociohydrologic research: (1) historical; (2) comparative; and (3) process-focused.…”

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Reconstructing the duty of water: a study of emergent norms in socio-hydrology

Wescoat

2013

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. This paper assesses the changing norms of water use known as the duty of water. It is a case study in historical socio-hydrology, or more precisely the history of socio-hydrologic ideas, a line of research that is useful for interpreting and anticipating changing social values with respect to water. The duty of water is currently defined as the amount of water reasonably required to irrigate a substantial crop with careful management and without waste on a given tract of land. The historical section of the paper traces this concept back to late 18th century analysis of steam engine efficiencies for mine dewatering in Britain. A half-century later, British irrigation engineers fundamentally altered the concept of duty to plan large-scale canal irrigation systems in northern India at an average duty of 218 acres per cubic foot per second (cfs). They justified this extensive irrigation standard (i.e., low water application rate over large areas) with a suite of social values that linked famine prevention with revenue generation and territorial control. The duty of water concept in this context articulated a form of political power, as did related irrigation engineering concepts such as "command" and "regime." Several decades later irrigation engineers in the western US adapted the duty of water concept to a different socio-hydrologic system and norms, using it to establish minimum standards for private water rights appropriation (e.g., only 40 to 80 acres per cfs). While both concepts of duty addressed socio-economic values associated with irrigation, the western US linked duty with justifications for, and limits of, water ownership. The final sections show that while the duty of water concept has been eclipsed in practice by other measures, standards, and values of water use efficiency, it has continuing relevance for examining ethical duties and for anticipating, if not predicting, emerging social values with respect to water.

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Hydrosolidarity and beyond: can ethics and equity find a place in today's water resource management?

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Cited by 35 publications

References 33 publications

Early focus on water strategies for the twenty-first century: IWRA as an interdisciplinary forerunner

Early focus on water strategies for the twenty-first century: IWRA as an interdisciplinary forerunner

The Nile and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Is There a Meeting Point between Nationalism and Hydrosolidarity?

Reconstructing the duty of water: a study of emergent norms in socio-hydrology

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