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Added: 2003-07-24 14:46
Modified: 2005-05-09 12:54
Refreshed: 2012-02-10 14:55
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| LESSONS AND RECOMENDATIONS: Water |
- FUTURE DIRECTIONS: Water
Good water policy involves planning at the watershed or basin level, and implementing at the local level. But the relationship cuts both ways. Watershed planning needs to be fully informed by local interests, local potential, and knowledge of local resources. Similarly, local supply and demand are constrained by the watershed's biophysical and socioeconomic limits. To a large extent, resolving these difficulties will describe the future directions of local water research and management.
- RECOMMENDATIONS: Water
Local resource management usually yields economically efficient, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable results. But there is still much to learn about the right extent and design of local water management. Most studies have looked at isolated rural areas and the management of surface water. Now the greatest unexploited potential for improvement is in urban areas and in the management of subsurface water.
Preventing Other "Walkertons" David B. Brooks and Mark Winfield
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the year 2003 as the International Year of Freshwater. This is a good opportunity to reflect on this precious resource too often taken for granted by most of us. What lessons can we draw from the fatal mismanagement of the water supply in Walkerton, Ontario (Canada)? Do we simply centralize the control of drinking water back in provincial hands? Or do we endow local communities with more power over their own water management?...
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