River Water Management: Policy Making and Public Intervention for Conservation of Water Quality and Quantity

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramakrishna Nallathiga
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
River Water ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Water Quality And Quantity

scholarly journals Science Informed Policies for Managing Water

Hydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 66
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Loucks
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Multiple Impacts ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Science Policy Interface ◽  
Management Policies

Water resource management policies impact how water supplies are protected, collected, stored, treated, distributed, and allocated among multiple users and purposes. Water resource policies influence the decisions made regarding the siting, design, and operation of infrastructure needed to achieve the underlying goals of these policies. Water management policies vary by region depending on particular hydrologic, economic, environmental, and social conditions, but in all cases they will have multiple impacts affecting these conditions. Science can provide estimates of various economic, ecologic, environmental, and even social impacts of alternative policies, impacts that determine how effective any particular policy may be. These impact estimates can be used to compare and evaluate alternative policies in the search for identifying the best ones to implement. Among all scientists providing inputs to policy making processes are analysts who develop and apply models that provide these estimated impacts and, possibly, their probabilities of occurrence. However, just producing them is not a guarantee that they will be considered by policy makers. This paper reviews various aspects of the science-policy interface and factors that can influence what information policy makers need from scientists. This paper suggests some ways scientists and analysts can contribute to and inform those making water management policy decisions. Brief descriptions of some water management policy making examples illustrate some successes and failures of science informing and influencing policy.

scholarly journals A Water Quality Assessment Tool for Decision Making, Based on Widely Used Water Quality Indices

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Mavromatidou Charoula ◽  
Trikilidou Eleni ◽  
Samiotis Georgios ◽  
Pekridis George ◽  
Lefteri Lefteris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Water Quality Assessment ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Common Strategy ◽  
Expert’S Opinion ◽  
First Results

Cross border areas face common challenges on water management, such as monitoring water demands and quality, because they share a common water basin for covering their water needs. This paper presents the first results of a new, accurate, sensitive and functional tool for assessing water quality, taking under consideration legislation and expert’s opinion, created in frame of the SAVE-WATER, Interreg IPA II Cross-border Cooperation Programme Greece-Albania 2014-2020. The project addresses the open problems and challenges by promoting a transnational common strategy for drinking water management and a shared management policy among three Greek and two Albanian cross border regions.

scholarly journals Science Informed Water Management Policies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Loucks
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Management Decisions ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Systems Analysts ◽  
Successes And Failures

Clearly policy makers should consider the impacts of any decisions they might make before making them. Science can provide estimates of various economic, ecologic, environmental, and even social impacts of alternative policies, impacts that determine how effective any particular policy will be. These impact estimates can be used to compare and evaluate alternative policies in the search for identifying the best one to implement. Among all scientists providing inputs to policy making processes are analysts who develop and apply models that provide these estimated impacts and, possibly, their probabilities of occurrence. But just producing them is not a guarantee that they will be considered by policy makers. This paper discusses ways scientists, including systems analysts, can effectively contribute to and inform those involved in making water management decisions. Brief descriptions of a variety of past and on-going water management policy making processes illustrate both some successes and failures of science informing policy.

Analisis Kelembagaan dalam Monitoring Kualitas Air Sungai Ciliwung di Wilayah Provinsi DKI Jakarta

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Aflakhur Ridlo
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
River Water ◽  
Monitoring System ◽  
Water Quality Monitoring ◽  
River Water Quality ◽  
Quality Monitoring ◽  
Administrative Authority ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Communication And Coordination ◽  
Water Quality Problem

Institutional research and policy analysis of water quality monitoring of the Ciliwung River has been conducted since the year 2015. This activity is the result of cooperation between the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia and the Agency for Assessment and Application of Technology. Due to the complexity of the Ciliwung River flows and water quality problem that passed the administrative authority of DKI Jakarta, the methodology of this study was emphasized in depth interviews to stakeholders in the management of the Ciliwung River. The plan to install some online system of river water quality monitoring is expected to run well and in accordance with existing laws and regulations. In addition, the readiness of the operationalization of this monitoring system to run well. Institutional strengthening forms and open method of coordination can be adopted to reduce communication and coordination barriers that are rigid and Weberian. From this study it is concluded that Jakarta Environmental Management Agency is the strongest candidate as one of the managers of online monitoring system of Ciliwung river water quality. Institutionally public intervention on river management in general can suppress water quality pollution which can threat n the health of people living around Jakarta area. Online Mortitoring system can be utilized by preparing a reliable institutional arrangements

scholarly journals Using a three-tier model to optimize the allocation of river water resources to meet eco-environmental water requirement targets

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1222-1233
Author(s):  
Ze-ning Wu ◽  
Qian-qian Cao ◽  
Cui-mei Lv ◽  
Hui-liang Wang ◽  
Zi-hao Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
River Water ◽  
Oxygen Demand ◽  
Environmental Water ◽  
Ammonia Nitrogen ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Water Requirements ◽  
Current State ◽  
Water Quality And Quantity

Abstract It is difficult to simultaneously manage the dynamic demands for river water quality and quantity, and reconcile the contradiction between socio-economic and eco-environmental water consumption. As a solution, we proposed a three-tier model to optimize the distribution of river water resources. Using three constraint conditions, namely the ratio of wastewater to clean water, the eco-environmental water requirements of each node and the use of wetland projects, we determined various water quantity and quality allocation scenarios. We tested the model on the Qingyi River, and found that, for the recommended scenario that involved enhanced water-saving, a wastewater/clean water ratio and wetlands, more than 80% of the eco-environmental water requirements of each node except for the Luma section were achieved for each month. While the water quality in some individual river sections did not meet the standards for a few months of the year, the water quality of the remaining sections could be improved from class V, the current state, to class IV, and ammonia nitrogen and chemical oxygen demand (COD) standards could be achieved 82% and 96% of the time, respectively. These results show that the proposed model is effective and fit for purpose.

A global assessment of basin plans: definitions, lessons, recommendations

Water Policy ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-386
Author(s):  
Jusipbek Kazbekov ◽  
Emelder Tagutanazvo ◽  
Jonathan Lautze
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Global Assessment ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Best Practice Guidelines ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Water Quality And Quantity

Basin plans have become a core element of water management in the 21st century. Systematic analytical scrutiny of the contents of basin plans is nonetheless scant. This paper develops a framework for assessing basin plans and systematically applies it to understand how contents of basin plans vary. The paper synthesizes a definition of ‘basin plan’, generates a classification system for basin plans, and proceeds to classify a regionally diverse set of 23 basin plans. Major findings are that basin plans typically contain the components and sub-components suggested in best-practice guidelines. Focus on some issues that are presumably central to water management such as water quality and quantity is nonetheless comparatively low. Disaggregating basin plans suggests that developing-country transboundary plans are more geared towards hydropower development, navigation and coping with uncertainty, while developed-country and national plans appear to focus more on issues such as water quality and fish management. It is hoped that findings contained in this paper support future basin plan development by informing those crafting basin plans of the options available to them.

Variations in Quality and Quantity of Slims River Water, Yukon Territory

1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1469-1478 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Leonard Bryan
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
River Water ◽  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Water Quantity ◽  
Glacier Terminus ◽  
Melt Water ◽  
Ablation Pattern ◽  
Water Quality And Quantity ◽  
Kluane Lake

The Slims River, one of the two outlets draining the Kaskawulsh Glacier of the Icefield Ranges, Yukon Territory, Canada, is seen to have a variation in both quality and quantity of discharge. These variations, studied for several 24 hour periods during the summer of 1970, are reflections of both the diurnal ablation pattern of the Kaskawulsh Glacier and of a shift in the glacial drainage, a shift which is thought to be due to ice movements at the glacial terminus. Water quality and quantity was measured at the bridge where the Alaska Highway crosses the Slims River and its delta in Kluane Lake. In addition, several similar measurements were taken on tributary streams entering the Slims River below the glacier terminus. Both sets of measurements show a distinct change during early August, the water quantity decreased by a factor of 3–5 and the quality became decidedly less fresh. The change in quality is considered to be a result of the decrease in the proportion of glacial melt water in the Slims River. The effects these changes in river water may have on sediment regimes in Kluane Lake are briefly discussed.

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