International Journal of Water Resources Development最新文献

{"title":"Causes and consequences of the Macta basin closure, Algeria","authors":"Nabil Kherbache, F. Molle","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2089100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2089100","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Macta River basin in Algeria is under pressure. A water accounting of the basin demonstrates the severity of the crisis, with a net water depletion rate estimated at 93–142%, depending on the assumptions made. This reflects the overexploitation of the aquifers whose annual depletion is estimated at between 86 and 126 Mm3. This paper first discusses the causes of basin overbuilding and the over-allocation of water, and then analyses the economic, social and environmental consequences. It calls for a stricter water accounting of river basins in Algeria as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its SDG 6 are implemented.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"382 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45172827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating factors attracting the participation of the private sector in rural water supply in Vietnam","authors":"Truong Duc Toan, N. Anh","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2078287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2078287","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper overviews Vietnam’s outcomes in implementing policies in the rural water supply and then applies a Delphi technique to determine the key factors in attracting the private sector in the context. Five factors were identified, including: government commitments; a unit at the central level to support projects; an authority at the local level to promote the activities of projects; guaranteed financial capacity to support projects; and a legal framework for the realization of projects. The findings from this study provide insights that may promote the participation of the private sector in Vietnam. The paper offers some lessons for other developing countries to pursue similar approaches.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"595 - 615"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43750569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving connectivity in water governance: the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms in disparate political and social contexts","authors":"R. Y. Wang, Marleen van Rijswick, L. Dai","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2071848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2071848","url":null,"abstract":"Water governance inevitably entails a complex bureaucratic matrix in which various functional agencies and territorially based administrative units operate at various institutional levels. These governmental actors have asymmetric rights and responsibilities, unbalanced powers, and divergent socio-economic interests, which may lead to water conflicts and governance failures. Likewise, non-governmental organizations, enterprises and community members do not necessarily concur with one another or with governmental actors on how water should be defined, used and/or transformed. The problems of disconnection and fragmentation can result in loosely institutionalized water governance systems, which may not be sufficiently equipped to render effective solutions to escalating tension and intensifying conflicts over water (Dellapenna et al., 2013; Gevers, 2018; Gupta et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2017). In response, various water cooperation mechanisms have been proposed at both international and national levels, focused on improving sustainability, efficiency, effectiveness and equality of water governance. Existing water governance literature has given much attention to the early stages of water cooperation mechanisms, such as the formulation of goals and discourses, deliberation over formal rules, and the establishment and reform of integrated water institutions (Gleick, 2003; Global Water Partnership, 2000; Schoeman et al., 2014). However, few studies have investigated how these mechanisms are implemented at the operational level and how various actors animate cooperation in practice (PahlWostl, 2020). Inadequate examination of the full policy cycle could obscure two important but understudied issues. On the one hand, various political, socio-economic and cultural factors may influence the process of implementation. It would be oversimplistic to analyse a water cooperation mechanism without closely examining its contextual configurations. In this sense, the implementation of water cooperation mechanisms is subject to complex interactions between those mechanisms and the contexts in which they operate, resulting in diverse outcomes that may not be fully consistent with policy goals (Schlager, 2016; Wang & Chen, 2021). On the other hand, the actors engaged by","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"38 1","pages":"545 - 553"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41747630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Governance of technological innovations in water and energy use in Uzbekistan","authors":"A. Hamidov, U. Kasymov, N. Allahverdiyeva, C. Schleyer","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2062706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2062706","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44372142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Water infrastructure in Asia: financing and policy options","authors":"E. Borgomeo, B. Kingdom, Judith Plummer-Braeckman, Winston Yu","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2062707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2062707","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How should the world deal with the problem of insufficient water infrastructure financing? Here we attempt to answer this question in the context of Asia. We estimate investment needs in water infrastructure to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to be in the range of US$120–330 billion/year until 2030, compared with current investment of US$40–50 billion/year. Closing this financing gap is not just a matter of spending more, but also spending with greater quality and efficiency considering competing national policy goals and the distinctive characteristics of water infrastructure that make its financing more challenging.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45077273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Structural and institutional arrangements impacting collective actions in WUAs of West Bengal, India","authors":"Indranil De, Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, Prabhat Mishra, Akhilesh Parey, S. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2041407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2041407","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study provides empirical evidence of major debates in collective action theory concerning resource and member heterogeneity by conducting a survey on 63 randomly selected water-user associations promoted by the West Bengal state government of India. The functioning and governance of these institutions were evaluated by efficiency in resource mobilization (collection of membership fees), members’ perception of transparency and democratic decision-making, and dependency on third-party involvement in the future. The study finds that a larger command area, larger proportion of smaller farmers, optimum membership fee, frequent general body meetings, certain documentation, and power structure improve the functioning and governance indicators.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"433 - 458"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48838840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Water security, climate change and COP26","authors":"C. Tortajada, A. Biswas","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2044114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2044114","url":null,"abstract":"Water security and climate change are only two of the major problems humankind is facing at present, and they will continue to be so for decades to come. However, important as they are, there are many other critical problems the world will have to confront for the rest of the 21st century. Most of these problems are now known, but there may be some black swan incidents, such as Covid-19, which are unexpected and may occur in the coming decades. If so, these could make the global situations even more complex than anticipated at present. An important global issue for many decades has been the steady increase in the global population. The current global population of some 7.95 billion is expected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050 and to 11 billion by 2100 (UN Population Division, 2019a). Additionally, in 2020, 56.15% of the global population lived in urban areas. This is estimated to increase to 68% by 2050, and to 85% by 2100 (UN Population Division, 2019b). It will mean that, increasingly, larger percentages of the global population will be concentrated in and around urban areas. This will undoubtedly put growing and serious strains on reliable and affordable supplies of food, energy, water and all other natural resources, as well as on the environment. In addition, ready availability of public health and all other forms of social services, including housing, education and transportation, for the rest of this century, will continue to be important challenges which all countries will have to face. Furthermore, all over the world, national governments and international organizations are likely to be under considerable pressure to alleviate poverty, increase the standard of living of the poor and the underprivileged, and provide improved environments for all to live in. Provision of many other social services, ranging from employment generation to improve connectivity and steady improvements in skills of the population, will be high up in the political agendas of nearly all nations. All major issues facing the world are now interrelated and interconnected. The dynamics of the human future will be ultimately determined not by one, but by two or more of these global issues, irrespective of how important, complex or pervasive any individual issue may be. This, because of the net results of interactions and impacts of multitude of them. For example, increasing population and demands for steadily improving standard of living and quality of life will require more and more food, energy, water and other resources, unless there are significant changes in improving the efficiencies of how they are produced, distributed and used. Augmenting and ensuring food and energy supplies will necessitate sustainable and more efficient water management during their production, distribution and use phases, as well as overall demands. Equally, many of these activities may contribute to more greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere, unless special policy measures are taken ","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"38 1","pages":"193 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46717680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Explaining the sustained public participation of ENGOs in China’s water governance: a case study of the ‘civilian river chiefs’ under the theoretical framework of ‘double embeddedness’","authors":"R. Y. Wang, Ying Peng, Yi Liu","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2022.2034601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2022.2034601","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although essential to successful environmental governance, public participation has been sporadic and fragmented in China. Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in the southern Chinese cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou, this paper explores how environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) have carried out ‘civilian river chiefs’ projects as novel approaches to water governance. We propose a framework of ‘double embeddedness’, within which ENGOs have built political and social legitimacy, reciprocity, and networks that enable their sustained participation in water governance. Our findings suggest that new patterns of state–community–non-governmental organization relationships are key to understanding public participation in China’s future environmental governance.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"38 1","pages":"680 - 698"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44183865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Handwashing behaviour among adults in rural Vietnam: a cross-sectional mixed methods study","authors":"Chunwen Xiao, Duy Anh Le, Nikita Makarchev","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2021.2014303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.2014303","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rural Vietnam has seen numerous sanitation and hygiene-related interventions. However, these have produced limited improvement in handwashing with soap. This study examines handwashing with soap practices and predictors in Giong Trom, Vietnam, based on a 792-person household survey and 78 stakeholder interviews. Descriptive statistics indicate handwashing with soap remains unsatisfactory. Regression analysis reveals its association with two contextual and five socio-psychological predictors. Interviews provide further elaboration with reference to local conditions. The findings underscore the importance of targeted multidimensional interventions, the limitations of exclusively infrastructural focuses, and the highly contextual nature of even the most popular handwashing with soap predictors.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"530 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44952480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Storm water systems’ performance: assessment framework application to Portuguese water utilities","authors":"Liliana Ferreira Santos, M. Cardoso, Ana Fonseca Galvão","doi":"10.1080/07900627.2021.2004882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2021.2004882","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Performance assessment is recognized as an important management tool for urban water systems. This article describes the application of a performance assessment framework for storm water systems, in collaboration with two Portuguese urban water utilities. A performance assessment system was built for each water utility, including objectives, assessment criteria and performance metrics. The results showed the existence of areas vulnerable to flooding occurrences and the need for investment in rehabilitation. The application of the performance assessment framework supports the identification of systems’ vulnerabilities and priorities for intervention. Opportunities and suggestions for improving data collection procedures are identified.","PeriodicalId":50279,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Water Resources Development","volume":"39 1","pages":"459 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45190817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}