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Putting Science Into Action: From Washington State Community-based Outreach To National Programming In Washington DC
Putting Science Into Action: From Washington State Community-based Outreach To National Programming In Washington DC
Pages 103-113
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developed nine major recommendations to enhance sustainability of global water resources. These recommendations promote developing new technologies for sustainable water management, closing the gap between science and policy in water resources, and integrating social and natural science efforts on sustainable water resources management.
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: • The effects of shifting regional water use patterns on communities and ecosystems and uncertainty about the impacts on water supply from improved land treatment and ecosystem management; • Identification of appropriate incentives such as agricultural water pricing reform that protects farmers against capricious changes in water allocation, ensures that they benefit from water conservation efforts, and provides a basis for water trading among farmers and across sectors; • The ineffective and protracted dissemination of research to the farm; • Unknown decision-making processes and a general lack of integrated decision support systems that plague appropriate water use at the farm level FIGURE 1 Agricultural Water Logic Model, McMaster University Health Sciences Library, Ontario, Canada, 2004. In response to the need for greater research, education and outreach, the U.S.
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. The adoption of these new water saving technologies at the farm and householder level requires more than just "laying out the facts." Vast amounts of educational materials exist for improving water conservation and water management, though much of this information requires adaptation to local watershed conditions.
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The number of farms and farmers continue to decline -- altering the time-honored rural audiences for cooperative extension and similar outreach programs. Larger farms, corporate farms and an expansion of the number of smaller farms close to urban markets must shift the traditional emphasis on rural communities and agriculture to a linked system of rural, urban, and urbanizing communities and activities that influence water availability for all uses (Stam and Dixon, 2002)
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? A lack of knowledge is only one of several barriers limiting progress towards behavioral change (McKenzie-Mohr, 2000)
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Delivering water management technology and know-how from agriculture (e.g., irrigation technology, plant substitution and adaptation, water reuse) into the urban, urbanizing, and rural residential environment will require new outreach efforts that closely follow the model implemented by food science researchers and extension educators to counteract obesity.
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First, research scientists must recognize the efficacy of a partnership with outreach professionals through targeted, integrated funding. Currently, USDA-CSREES funds several integrated programs in the National Integrated Water Quality Program to improve the quality of our Nation's surface water and groundwater resources through requiring integration of research, education, and extension activities (http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?
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An issue of this magnitude requires new and innovative tools. For example, the State of Washington adopted watershed analysis, structured a collaborative approach to developing a forest practices plan for a watershed based on a biological and physical inventory (Washington Forest Practices Board, 1997)
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A Theoretical Analysis of Economic Incentive Policies Encouraging Agricultural Water Conservation, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 19(1)
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IFPRI-2020 Vision/ International Water Management Institute, Internat. Food Policy Institute, Washington DC.
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1998. World Water Vision Commission Report: A water secure world, vision for water life and the environment.
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