Getting things done: bureaucratic and entrepreneurial approaches to the practice of participatory water management reforms in Brazil and India

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (S1) ◽  
pp. 84-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Tankha ◽  
Boyd Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Administrative Reforms ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
Participatory Water Management

Based on field investigations of initiatives to increase stakeholder participation in water management in Brazil and India, this paper provides insights into the practice of water sector reforms. Looking at the pace of reforms across both countries, we find that the process of creating institutions to facilitate stakeholder participation is proceeding rapidly but greater attention is required on administrative reforms and capacity building. We find that the supply and demand of participation opportunities is often mismatched, and that participation reforms in the water sector may follow two very different paths: the bureaucratic and the entrepreneurial.

scholarly journals Overview of participatory water management to overcome drought towards agricultural sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 249 ◽  
pp. 01008
Author(s):  
Dian Tristi Agustini ◽  
Johan Iskandar
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Water Governance ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Agricultural System ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Water Users ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Participatory Water Management

Drought gives severe impact on agricultural system on fulfilling global food demands. Addressing the root causes of drought related to the community as water users can be done by combating illegal water extraction and controlling water supply. The discussion is based on information obtained from scientific literatures, such as Science Direct, Google Scholar and Scopus. From literature survey, participatory water management engage stakeholders harmonizing water supply and demand to tackle drought through water resources protection and efficient water use. Giving more power of people in the system impacts their better involvement in planning and decision-making processes. Top-down and bottomup participation models have different dynamics in water governance and both can be implemented based on the local contexts. Trade-offs and dilemmas should be considered in order to produce an effective participation. Collaboration and good communication among water users result in a better water management.

Arguments for involving the public in water management: evidence from local and regional water plans in the Netherlands

Water Policy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 918-931 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ank Michels
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Water ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
Participatory Water Management ◽  
Support Policy ◽  
Regional Water

Public participation has become increasingly important in the water sector. However, the question remains as to what exactly is meant by participation. This paper explores the different ways that participation is understood in local and regional water plans and visions in the Dutch water sector. Partly driven by the key role played by participatory water management under the European Water Framework Directive, citizens’ engagement has become an important aspect in the plans of authorities across the board that are involved in water management. The study concludes that the most dominant view on participation is very narrow, with a strong focus on clarification and on raising awareness. According to a second, less dominant view on participation, it is stressed that the role of participation is to produce information, knowledge, and expertise to support policy making. As a consequence, power relations between government and the public remain very much top down, with very little room for bottom-up ideas.

Water Management by Farmers

2018 ◽  
pp. 796-813
Author(s):  
Laurence Smith
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Coordination Mechanisms ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multifunctional Land Use ◽  
Resource Managers ◽  
Policy Challenge ◽  
Communication And Coordination

Analyzing the public policy challenge of multifunctional land use, for which farmers are required to be food producers, water resource managers and environmental stewards, it is argued that a location-sensitive policy mix is required, consisting of appropriate regulation complemented by advice provision, voluntarism, and well-targeted incentive schemes. The case is further made for adaptive management, local deliberation and stakeholder participation, and hence for governance that is open, delegated, and collaborative. Assessment, planning, and decision making need to be delegated to the most appropriate governmental level and spatial scale to achieve desired outcomes, whilst effective mechanisms for vertical and horizontal coordination of the resulting multilevel and polycentric governance are essential. Hydrographic catchments have significant advantages as spatial units for analysis, planning, coordination, and policy delivery. However, catchment-based working creates further need for cross-level, sector, and scale communication and coordination. Mechanisms for this merit further attention.

Participatory water management at the main canal: A case from South Ferghana canal in Uzbekistan

2009 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iskandar Abdullaev ◽  
Jusipbek Kazbekov ◽  
Hearth Manthritilake ◽  
Kahramon Jumaboev
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Participatory Water Management ◽  
Main Canal

Robust Control for Urban Living Water System with Seasonal Volatility

2013 ◽  
Vol 295-298 ◽  
pp. 1927-1930
Author(s):  
Ke Bai Li
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Robust Control ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Water System ◽  
Management Model ◽  
State Variables ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Target Value ◽  
Seasonal Volatility

Established urban living water management model. With capital and labor as state variables, using the pole assignment robust control method, realize the urban living water system supply and demand balance tending to target value.

Stakeholder involvement in water management: the role of the stakeholder analysis within participatory processes

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 675-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Sabina Lupo Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Stakeholder Analysis ◽  
Stakeholder Involvement ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Future Challenges

Water is a central resource supporting human activities and ecosystems and it is required for different purposes and uses that are often conflicting. Existing water-related problems are expected to increase and conventional water resource management systems are not likely to be able to face future challenges. There is the need for an integrated water resources management, which should be participatory, technically and scientific informed and which should be based on bottom-up approach. The Directive 2000/60/EC is based on principles of integrated planning and calls for stakeholder involvement in water management. Involving stakeholders is an important step to ensure that catchment management plans take into consideration local needs, experiences and interests. This paper presents a stakeholder analysis methodology that was developed to support stakeholder participation in water management. The methodology was implemented as a preliminary step in a stakeholder participation project in an alpine sub-catchment in Northern Italy.

Water institutional reforms in Chile

Water Policy ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert R. Hearnea ◽  
Guillermo Donosob
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Institutional Change ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Group Behavior ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Management Institutions

This paper provides a review of the recent institutional changes observed in the water sector in Chile. This review is then used to reflect the Chilean experience in the light of the results concerning institutional change found in existing literature on both institutional economics in general and water institutional economics in particular. These results relate to factors explaining institutional change and the role of endogenous institutional features, such as path dependency and institutional linkages during the reform process. Against a brief description of the main features of the water sector in Chile, the paper provides an overview of Chilean water management institutions and the reforms process ongoing since the 1980s. The factors that motivated institutional changes in Chile's water management include ideology, transactions costs, interest-group behavior and path dependency. While the already observed institutional changes, such as the transferable water rights, water markets and urban water reforms, are all significant, further reforms are delayed by the deliberate legislative process required for changes as a result of the 1980 Constitution. Future water reforms in Chile, therefore, depend on a very difficult process of political reforms needed to change the 1980 Constitution and the 1981 Water Code.

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