Multi-tiered Governance of the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin: The Fragmented Water Resources Management Model of the United States and Mexico

Nava, Luzma Fabiola; Solís, Samuel Sandoval

doi:10.7564/13-ijwg23

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“…The distribution of the scarce and over-allocated water resources of the RGB is governed by a complex setup of agreements, regulations, bi-national treaties, inter-state compacts, and physical infrastructures (i.e. dams, levees, diversions, irrigation canals, channelization projects) that operate on multiple scales (Koch et al, 2019;Nava & Sandoval-Solis, 2014). While large-scale development of irrigated agriculture intensified during the 19 th century and especially after the Desert Land Act of 1877, crop irrigation has been essential for the livelihoods of Native peoples in the basin (Blythe & Schmidt, 2018;Scurlock, 1998).…”

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Multi-scale fallow land dynamics in a water-scarce basin of the U.S. Southwest

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Koch

Wilson

et al. 2021

Journal of Land Use Science

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Improving our understanding of land-use change is critical for water management in semi-arid areas, due to its effects on the hydrological cycle. In the U.S. Southwest, fallowing farmland has become one strategy to reduce water use. Previous to this study, the magnitude and location of changes in fallowing have not been studied in depth. Using the 30-meter Cropland Data Layer, this study assessed the spatial and temporal patterns of fallowing in the U.S. portion of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo Basin (RGB) at three spatial scales (basin, state, and ecoregion) between 2008 and 2018. Our results do not show evidence of an increasing trend in fallowing at the basin level. However, the spatio-temporal patterns differed considerably among states and ecoregions, revealing hotspots of fallowing. By showing that land fallowing is not a widespread practice across the basin, our findings indicate that the potential of this strategy to save water has been underused.

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Multi-scale fallow land dynamics in a water-scarce basin of the U.S. Southwest

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Koch

Wilson

et al. 2021

Journal of Land Use Science

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“…For instance, a farmer in southern New Mexico might explain some aspects of their farming practices in terms of the water limitations placed on them by New Mexico's obligation, under the Rio Grande Compact, to release water to Texas, leaving "less" water for New Mexico farmers. This kind of thinking -this explanation that gives primacy to compact obligations -contributes to many water managers expressing that the root cause of the "the problem" is primarily one of "other people" and a legal legacy of "outdated" or "unjust" treaties, agreements, and/or compacts (Nava & Sandoval-Solis, 2014, rather than seeing problems within their own practices, or problems associated with the iterative effects of climate change and cycles of degradation within the socioenvironmental system of the RGB.…”

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Conceptual modeling for improved understanding of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo socio-environmental system

Koch

Friedman

Paladino

et al. 2019

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Social processes are essential components of human-environment systems and their dynamics. However, modeling a tightly coupled socio-environmental system over a large area and across wide social and environmental diversity presents several challenges, given the complexity of the interactions and their spatial heterogeneity. The transboundary Rio Grande/Río Bravo (RGB) Basin is an excellent case study to address these challenges. Water scarcity and over-allocation of water are present in a highly engineered system with extensive damming and a complex structure of agreements and compacts that govern the distribution of hydrological resources among users. Since no basin-wide approaches to modeling the RGB as a socio-environmental system exist, we attempt to close this gap. Building on data collected through extensive ethnographic fieldwork, we used a structured, collaborative, and integrative approach for documenting existing knowledge on and modeling of the RGB socio-environmental system. We assess different models for conceptualizing human behavior applied in the RGB, identify a need to redefine the (spatial) boundaries of the system and produce inductively generated knowledge about the interlinkages of social processes with environmental system components in the form of a semi-quantitative conceptual model. Our research demonstrates an alternative to ad-hoc approaches to defining “the social” in socio-environmental models and is a first step towards the development of a basin-wide computer simulation model of the RGB socio-environmental system.

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“…En relación con el caso mexicano, la mayoría de las investigaciones coinciden en que el problema de la gestión del agua se encuentra en la debilidad de su marco institucional, la cual no ha permitido que la GIRH tenga los resultados esperados. Se implantó dicho modelo de gestión pero continúan las inercias y prácticas del pasado, es decir, la centralización del poder sigue imperando y no la descentralización y alta intensidad de participación de todos los actores como plantea el modelo (Domínguez, 2006;Nava y Sandoval, 2014). En este contexto se aprobó el dictamen de la Ley General de Aguas y es necesario que la política federal del agua se adapte a esta reforma.…”

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La gestión integrada de recursos hídricos en la política federal del agua: propuesta para la nueva Ley General de Aguas en México

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El propósito del presente artículo es proponer un esbozo de política pública federal en el contexto del debate de la recién aprobada Ley General de Aguas en México. Se parte de un diagnóstico estadístico y se analiza el proceso de política pública desde el establecimiento de la agenda hasta la evaluación, pasando por la definición del problema, el diseño y la implementación. La lección del artículo es que los principales desafíos de la gestión integrada de recursos hídricos en México se encuentran a nivel local y es necesario que la política federal enfatice en el fortalecimiento de los organismos a nivel de cuenca y de municipio, se propone la gobernanza corporativa pública como una alternativa para el fortalecimiento institucional local

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Multi-tiered Governance of the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin: The Fragmented Water Resources Management Model of the United States and Mexico

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Multi-scale fallow land dynamics in a water-scarce basin of the U.S. Southwest

Multi-scale fallow land dynamics in a water-scarce basin of the U.S. Southwest

Conceptual modeling for improved understanding of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo socio-environmental system

La gestión integrada de recursos hídricos en la política federal del agua: propuesta para la nueva Ley General de Aguas en México

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