This book provides a solid foundation for a comprehensive, systemic and water-centric approach to water management. Said approach integrates two performance principles essential for sustainable water use systems, namely equity and efficiency. Further, it decreases the policy space for decision-making encountered by water managers and makes it easier to arrive at reasonable solutions because of the bounded rationality inherent in its development. By combining the distributive and aggregative principles, the approach offers a transparent and autonomous structure for gathering water data and enabling stakeholder involvement. Lastly, it employs and promotes a unifying language for all types of water use systems, e.g. urban, agricultural and industrial.
Author(s): Naim Haie
Series: Water Resources Development and Management
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 136
City: Singapore
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations and Symbols
1 Introduction
1.1 Water Security, Governance or Management
1.2 Bounded Rationality
References
2 Terminology
2.1 Water Use System (WUS)
2.2 Pillars: Quantity, Quality, Benefits
2.3 Water Use and Reuse
2.4 Binary Opposites in Water
2.5 Water Loss of Flows and Systems
2.5.1 Unrecoverables
References
3 Theory
3.1 Five FIWs (Foundational Ideas About WUS)
3.2 Learning with Stakeholders
3.3 Smart Water Use Systems
References
4 Sefficiency (Sustainable Efficiency)
4.1 Proof of Sefficiency Indicators
4.2 Levels of Management
4.3 Weights
4.3.1 Quality Attribute
4.3.2 Beneficial Attribute
4.3.3 Usefulness Criterion
4.4 Trade-Offs
4.4.1 Jevons Paradox
4.4.2 Three Impacts in Differentials
4.4.3 Patterns
4.5 Alternatives
4.5.1 Classical Efficiency
4.5.2 Water Productivity
4.5.3 Effective Efficiency
4.5.4 Resiliency
References
5 Sequity (Sustainable Equity)
5.1 Categories
5.2 Segments
5.3 Equity Revisited
5.3.1 Equality
5.3.2 Conservation
5.3.3 Sefficiency
5.4 Targets
5.5 Four Policy Types
5.6 Reality Check
5.7 Phases in Decision-Making
References
6 Applications
6.1 Water Saving Myth
6.2 Urban
6.3 Equity
6.4 Farm
6.5 Water, Energy, Food
6.6 River, Urban, Farm
6.7 Trade and Water Footprint
References
Appendix A Equivalency
Appendix B Sefficiency Template
Appendix C Environment and Social Contract
Index