Managing Water Resources in the West Under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty A Proceedings (1991) / Chapter Skim
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17. Creative Water Management
17. Creative Water Management
Pages 290-295
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Global climate changes are occurring much more slowly than weather changes due to normal climate variability. Therefore, if we are able to respond adequately to changes produced by normal climate variability, we should be able to cope with global climate change.
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It is my opinion that in relatively humid regions of England and the eastern United States, where water is plentiful, the riparian doctrine survives because water disputes are few. Further, disputes that do occur are rarely life-and-death situations; society can afford to allow the courts to take their time resolving fairly broad social issues on a case-by-case basis.
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I get very upset when people talk about having shortages in urban water supply systems that they do not address fire protection in their future planning. When these shortages do occur, there will be no fire protection, and that's serious business, even over the short term.
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And, with the exception of "water quality" legislation (which does, in some ways, address the allocation of water resources) , political bodies have usually stayed way from the individual allocation of water rights, leaving these issues to the courts and the existing structure for resolving disputes I mentioned earlier.
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MANAGEMENT MEASURES Now that I've shown that water management is unnatural and difficult, what can be done to manage water and how does this relate to climate variability and climate change? Actions to manage water can be placed into four categories: structural measures, operational measures, allocations measures, and measures that increase the efficiency of use.
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Examples of nonmarket types of allocations include allocations measures for water quality, instream flow, social welfare, and fire fighting. Finally, creative water management involves devising ways to promote efficiency of use.
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