A Perspective on Public Involvement in Water Management Decision Making

1977 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kris G. Kauffman ◽  
Alice Shorett
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Management Decision Making

What water managers need to know about public participation: one US practitioner's perspective

Water Policy ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Creighton
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
The Us ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
The Usa

Increasingly, public participation is a precondition for water management decision making. In the USA, water management agencies have been utilizing public participation since the early 1970s, with varying degrees of success and commitment to the process. Some of the US experience may not be transferable to other countries or other cultures. But the author describes basic lessons he believes are fundamental to effective public participation in virtually all countries and situations.

Implementing participatory irrigation management in Thailand

Water Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wachiraporn Kumnerdpet ◽  
A. John Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Participatory Irrigation Management ◽  
Management Decision Making

Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) was formally adopted in Thailand in 2004. The involvement of farmers in water management decision making is necessary to meet the implementation challenges of this initiative. As such, the research presented in this paper considered the level of farmer involvement in water management and decision making, and the lessons learned by both government officials and farmers through the implementation of PIM in Thailand to date. Data collected from document reviews and a total of 44 semistructured face-to-face and telephone interviews of public irrigation officials and farmers nationwide show that farmers possess the full potential to manage irrigation water by themselves, and that they are making important changes to governance systems for irrigation. However, they need both the opportunity and the continuing supportof public irrigation officials for success, which is currently only being partly achieved through the PIM initiative.

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