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Comparative comprehensiveness of water management in four river basins [draft]

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  • A rich variety of water management techniques are employed throughout the world. This diversity reflects not only the myriad combinations of hydrologic and demand characteristics found from basin to basin but also the variety of institutional approaches to water management that can be employed. While some institutional approaches select river basins as the most suitable units of water resources planning and/or management, many do not. Indeed most approaches manage relatively few hydrologic interdependencies within a catchment area. This paper compares the comprehensiveness of water management in four river basins. Two basins, the Ruhr and Neckar, are in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); while the Delaware and Willamette are in the USA.'Comphensive' as used in this paper connotes purposeful and integrated management strategies which effectively produce the desired water related goods and services while maximizing the positive hydrologic interdepencencies resulting from the use and development of the water resource. Conversely, comprehensive approachs minimize negative spillover effects. Water management in each of the four river basins is considered separately. First, the hydrologic-water demand characteristics are presented as a background to identifying the major water related management tasks. Then the comprehensiveness of the approaches used to accomplish the major tasks are appraised. Three criteria are used to assess the comprehensiveness of the approach: 1) The number of principal actors in the basin addressing the water related task in question. A small number of actors suggests comprehensiveness. 2) The degree to which there is spatial coincidence between the basin and the jurisdictional extent of the principal actor(s). A high degree of covariation implies comprehensiveness. And 3) the extent to which the principal actors plan for and manage the hydrologic interdependencies within the basin. This is the most significant of the three criteria and is therefore considered in more detail than the other two. The comprehensiveness of water management in the four river basins is now considered -- in order of increasing comprehensiveness.
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