Water and Western Growth

Tarlock, A. Dan; Wetering, Sarah B. Van de

doi:10.1080/15480755.2007.10394442

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“…Historically, federal and provincial governments have been the planners and regulators of our water resources and have been primarily motivated by the goal of economic efficiency (Tarlock and Van de Wetering 2007…”

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“…The most common strategy in the United States is to link water and land use planning and to require water supply elements in comprehensive municipal plans and places the responsibility for water supply acquisition on local governments and/or developers (Tarlock and Van de Wetering 2007). The Water Protection Act (The WPA), which was recently introduced in Manitoba, attempts to link water and land use planning but does not address large-scale subdivision developers taking advantage of the domestic exemption.…”

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“…Residential growth impacts three water-related commons: (1) cultural commons represented by small farms or raw commodities production communities (2) community amenity levels and (3) water dedicated to aquatic ecosystem functions (Tarlock and Van de Wetering 2007), underscoring the need for regional cooperation from adjacent communities. Planning districts and conservation districts may be helpful in the future to designate domestic well management areas, such as present in New Mexico, where high concentrations of domestic wells can stress regional water supplies and community water systems, potentially increase groundwater pollution, and create a public hazard if improperly constructed or abandoned (New Mexico 2008).…”

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“…). Conversely, city and municipal governments have been the planners and regulators of our land resources and have been primarily motivated by the goal of preventing nuisances(Tarlock and Van de Wetering 2007). Local governments' history of foreseeing, and thus preventing, potential land use nuisance claims is part of what makes local governments ideally suited to dealing with domestic water use conflicts that continue to be governed under the common law.…”

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All North American jurisdictions that use a licensing or permitting system to allocate water provide for a domestic exemption under their respective water licensing or permitting systems. One rationale behind the domestic exemption is based on the conclusions that such small users cannot afford the expense and other burdens of complying with the licensing requirements and that exempting such small diversions does not seriously impair the province or state agency's ability to manage the water of the jurisdiction. Within a Manitoban context, this unlicensed use has not yet contributed to an overdraft on the safe yield in any aquifer or watershed within the province but has resulted in some localized adverse well interference. A series of interviews from a number of sectors and three case studies from the capital and southeastern regions were compelled to discuss the implications of the current legislation with respect to adverse well interference and to provide recommendations for dealing with exurban growth directed at achieving long term sustainability of the province's water resources. The research concluded that moral 'suasion is the only tool available to regulators under the current legislation and that the current gap in the regulatory framework would be best addressed under The Planning Act.

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“…The region has a history of grassroots action on water issues [73,74]. In the 1990s, issues with the delivery of CAP water that caused brown water to flow from some resident's taps resulted in a citizen's initiative that restricts how CAP water is delivered to this day [75].…”

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Public Participation in Water Planning in the Ebro River Basin (Spain) and Tucson Basin (U.S., Arizona): Impact on Water Policy and Adaptive Capacity Building

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2016

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Abstract:The benefits of public participation in water management are recognized by governments, scholars, and stakeholders. These benefits, however, do not result from all engagement endeavors. This leads to the question: What are the determinants for effective public participation? Given a list of criteria for achieving the transformational capacity of participation, we analyze the benefits (including the influence on public policies) gained through public participation and the determinant factors for obtaining these benefits in the Ebro River Basin in Spain and in the Tucson Basin in Arizona (U.S.). Furthermore, and considering that droughts and floods are major water management challenges in both case studies, we focus on the potential of participation to build adaptive capacity. Our analysis of these case studies concludes that influence on public policies is determined more by the context of the participatory process, i.e., legal framework, political leadership, and social awareness, whereas influence on adaptive capacity building depends more on the characteristics of the participatory process, particularly the existence of active on-site consultation and deliberation.

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Becoming with rainwater: A study of hydrosocial relations and subjectivity in a desert city

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2019

Economic Anthropology

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Across the world, desalinization, wastewater recycling, and rainwater collection are just a few of the new technological and social processes transforming human–water relations in urban areas. Although rainwater collection is an ancient technology, I argue that its formalization as a water conservation technology in American cities brings into being novel resources and subjectivities. By analyzing the implementation of rainwater collection systems in Tucson, Arizona, I explore how precipitation and urban residents become internally related through their situated engagements in a water conservation program. The analysis presented in this article draws on ethnographic insights from the everyday lived experiences of rainwater management in urban households as well as in policy analysis, landscape surveys, and semistructured interviews with rainwater harvesters, experts, and decision makers. I demonstrate how, despite their involvement in a state‐funded water conservation program, rainwater harvesters are engaging in a new economic relationship with water, not to maximize efficiency in a place of scarcity (i.e., to reduce their potable water consumption), but rather to self‐fashion themselves into what they understand to be ethical subjects in a place of scarcity. Through this case study, I thus begin to ethnographically sketch the new hydrosocial relations emerging as cities confront the dual challenges of urban growth and climate change.

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Public Participation in Water Planning in the Ebro River Basin (Spain) and Tucson Basin (U.S., Arizona): Impact on Water Policy and Adaptive Capacity Building

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