Institutionalizing Participation in Water Resource Development: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Practices in Southern Thailand

Singto, Chakaphon; Fleskens, Luuk; Vos, Jeroen

doi:10.3390/w10060781

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“…Effective and sustainable water management depended on stakeholders participating in decisions linked to water development. Singto et al [18] concluded that "participation should be institutionalized and facilitated in a way that fosters accountable representation by all stakeholders, builds trust, and'recognizes stakeholder interests and knowledge".…”

Section: Target 6b-stakeholder Participationmentioning

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A Review of the SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 from an Education, Training, and Research Perspective

Ortigara¹,

Kay²,

Uhlenbrook

2018

Water

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In 2015, UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): “Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all”. Commonly known as the ‘water goal’, SDG 6 went well beyond the limited focus on water supply and sanitation in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and recognized the importance of all aspects of the water cycle in development and that water was embedded directly and indirectly in all 17 SDGs. In 2018, the UN published a report: “Sustainable Development Goal 6 Synthesis Report on Water and Sanitation 2018” (referred to in this paper as ‘the report’) that reviewed progress with SDG 6 at global and regional levels. Overall, the report concluded there was progress, but it was too slow, and the world was not on track to achieve SDG 6 by 2030 without a significant change of gear. The report was written primarily for those working in sustainable development to guide finance and resource allocation, but there was much embedded in the report that was of value to those engaged in research and in developing the much-needed capacity to plan and manage water resources, particularly in developing countries. This paper attempts to distill these issues and to ask how those involved in education, training, and research could contribute to enabling and accelerating progress towards achieving SDG 6. Three key areas of engagement were identified: the urgent need for more data and improved monitoring to assess SDG 6 progress and to enhance decision-making, the need to address the serious lack of human and institutional capacity that was constraining progress, and the challenge of taking research into policy and practice. Note: This paper is a review of selected aspects of the report (in which production the authors were chiefly involved as coordinators and editors), and as such most of the facts, figures, and discussion in this review are taken from the report. For this reason, we have not continually attributed them to the report to avoid repetition. However, in some cases, we have attributed report material to the primary sources where we considered it important to do so. We have also attributed material we have included, and which is not cited in the report. A review inevitably depends, to some extent, on the views of the reviewers and as such we have tried to make it clear where we are expressing our personal views rather than those expressed in the report. The report contains full references to all the primary sources.

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Section: Target 6b-stakeholder Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of the SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 from an Education, Training, and Research Perspective

Ortigara¹,

Kay²,

Uhlenbrook

2018

Water

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“…Based on the information gathered from onsite data collection, various calculation and assessment of water relation and its correlation to the wastage of the revenue have been divided into the following calculations [19,20,34]: i…”

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“…The average daily consumption was derived by using annual consumption data, number of population, and total water consumption over the year. The average daily per capita consumption of IoT, Ambo University was derived using the following jargons [34,35]:…”

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Evaluating Physical and Fiscal Water Leakage in Water Distribution System

Bhagat

Tiyasha

Welde

et al. 2019

Water

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With increasing population, the need for research ideas on the field of reducing wastage of water can save a big amount of water, money, time, and energy. Water leakage (WL) is an essential problem in the field of water supply field. This research is focused on real water loss in the water distribution system located in Ethiopia. Top-down and bursts and background estimates (BABE) methodology is performed to assess the data and the calibration process of the WL variables. The top-down method assists to quantify the water loss by the record and observation throughout the distribution network. In addition, the BABE approach gives a specific water leakage and burst information. The geometrical mean method is used to forecast the population up to 2023 along with their fiscal value by the uniform tariff method. With respect to the revenue lost, 42575 Br and 42664 Br or in 1562$ and 1566$ were lost in 2017 and 2018, respectively. The next five-year population was forecasted to estimate the possible amount of water to be saved, which was about 549627 m3 and revenue 65,111$ to make the system more efficient. The results suggested that the majority of losses were due to several components of the distribution system including pipe-joint failure, relatively older age pipes, poor repairing and maintenance of water taps, pipe joints and shower taps, negligence of the consumer and unreliable water supply. As per the research findings, recommendations were proposed on minimizing water leakage.

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“…Outcomes for stakeholders further depend on how they are included in the decision-making process, e.g. whether they are only informed, or consulted and have had the chance to codesign interventions and make decisions (Singto et al 2018).…”

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“…In conflicts, affected stakeholders often claim that participatory tools are biased and limit their engagement in the dam planning process (Singto et al 2018). Elicitation methods and discussions with affected people need to systematically improve to engage affected stakeholders (Van Asselt and Rijkens-Klomp 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Applying Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) with stakeholders to explore and codesign options for water resource interventions

Singto

Fleskens

Vos

et al. 2020

Sustain. Water Resour. Manag.

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Bayesian Belief networks (BBNs) are a useful tool to account for uncertainty and can be used to incorporate stakeholder understandings of how a system works. In this study, BBNs were applied to elicit and discuss local stakeholders' concerns in conflicts over water resource planning in two cases in southern Thailand. One concerned the construction of a dam proposed by a top-down project. The other concerned a bottom-up participatory process at the catchment scale to assess the need for water resources interventions and explore perceptions on alternative design options. In the top-down project, the responses of participants during the elaboration of the BBN showed that potentially affected stakeholders were particularly concerned about limited consultation and lack of shared benefits, which led them to oppose the dam project. In the bottom-up project, local stakeholders expected and agreed with the benefits of a dam, proposing to locate the dam upstream of community land. The BBN method did not facilitate dialogue in the top-down dam-building project because no alternative design options could be discussed and potentially affected stakeholders did not want to discuss compensation because of mistrust and differences in valuation of effects. In the bottom-up project, the BBN method did facilitate dialogue on alternative intervention options and their effects. The replicable BBN framework can support policy-makers to better understand water conflict situations in different stages of planning. Its application supports exploring a wider repertoire of options, enlarging the scope for more inclusive and sustainable solutions to water resource conflicts.

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Institutionalizing Participation in Water Resource Development: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Practices in Southern Thailand

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

A Review of the SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 from an Education, Training, and Research Perspective

A Review of the SDG 6 Synthesis Report 2018 from an Education, Training, and Research Perspective

Evaluating Physical and Fiscal Water Leakage in Water Distribution System

Applying Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) with stakeholders to explore and codesign options for water resource interventions

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