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IWRM and Groundwater:

IWRM and Groundwater: Have the Twain Met Yet? Michael E. Campana Past President, AWRA Professor of Hydrogeology & Water Resources Management Oregon State University AWRA 2014 Summer Specialty Conference IWRM: From Theory to Application 30 June - 2 July 2014 Reno, NV. Talk Organization.

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IWRM and Groundwater:

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  1. IWRM and Groundwater: Have the Twain Met Yet?Michael E. CampanaPast President, AWRAProfessor of Hydrogeology & Water Resources Management Oregon State University AWRA 2014 Summer Specialty Conference IWRM: From Theory to Application 30 June - 2 July 2014 Reno, NV

  2. Talk Organization • Introduction to IWRM Emperor • Shameless Plug • What is IWRM? • IWRM & Groundwater: Problems? • IWRM & Groundwater @ World Water Forums • Nonrenewable Groundwater • Boundaries: Umatilla Basin, Memphis Sand • Juggernauts • My Take • Thank You!

  3. He’s Baaack! The Emperor of IWRM! Integrated Water Resources Management: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process?

  4. Shameless Plug! ‘Contesting Hidden Waters: Conflict Resolution for Groundwater & Aquifers’ by W. Todd Jarvis

  5. What is IWRM? IWRM & Groundwater: Problems?

  6. What is IWRM? Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximise economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems and the environment. – Global Water Partnership [http://is.gd/7l3kZD]

  7. World IWRM Concept Operationally, IWRM approaches involve applying knowledge from various disciplines as well as insights from diverse stakeholders to devise and implement efficient, equitable and sustainable solutions to water and development problems (GWP 2000; http://www.gwp.org/)

  8. IWRM and Groundwater: Problems? • IWRM – key aspects vis-à-vis GW • Sustainability • Surface watershed (SW) is often used as the management/governance unit • Groundwater: • Sustainably pumped? Response times • Flows v. Stocks (98% of unfrozen FW) • Boundaries – groundwatersheds not fixed and can underlie multiple SWs • Nonrenewability – IWRM nonstarter?

  9. World Water Forums

  10. Groundwater and IWRM at 5th (Turkey, 2009), 6th (France, 2012), and 7th (ROK, 2015)World Water Forums 5th WWF – Some presentations that touched on the subject. Recognition of need to integrate IWRM and Groundwater. Propose session at 6 WWF 6th WWF – Session on Groundwater & IWRM: Presentations and discussions of path(s) forward 7th WWF – Session proposal made.

  11. Groundwater: Can We Put the ‘Integrated’ into Integrated Water Resources Management? Michael E. Campana Past President, AWRA 13 March 2012 www.waterwired.org aquadoc@oregonstate.edu

  12. 6WWF: Groundwater & IWRM Session - 1 1700 – 1710 Introduction - Dr. Michael E. Campana 1710 - 1725 Groundwater in the New EU Water Management Plans: Examples from Portugal - Dr. J.P. Lobo-Ferreira, National Lab. of Civil Engr. (LNEC) 1725 – 1740 Groundwater and IWRM: UNESCO-IHP Perspective - Dr. Alice Aureli, UNESCO - IHP 1740 – 1755 Nonrenewable Groundwater: Governance and Management - Dr. Todd Jarvis, Oregon State U. 1755 - 1810 Advancing Integrated Water Resource Management in Systems with High Levels of Social & Scientific Uncertainty: Lessons from the Palouse Basin, USA - Dr. Allyson Beall, Washington State U 1810 – 1820 Summary and Path Forward – Dr. Michael E. Campana, Oregon State University

  13. 6WWF: Groundwater & IWRM Session - 2 1)Attended by about 80 enthusiastic, engaged persons 2) Consensus: this is an issue of importance 3) Paths forward: a) Establish a website that would be devoted specifically to ‘Groundwater and IWRM’. Site would allow for easy posting of material and discussion. Facebook? b) Keep discussing – conference presentations, etc. c) Propose follow-up session for 7WWF in Republic of Korea, April 2015 4) Progress: Site has not been established (my fault!); Proposal for 7WWF – done, have not heard (likely not accepted)

  14. Groundwater Issues

  15. Groundwatershed and Surface Watershed BoundariesOften Do Not Correspond(thanks to Todd Jarvis)

  16. Mississippi Embayment Aquifer System (Renken 1998)

  17. NW-SE Hydrostratigraphic Cross Section beneath Memphis, Tennessee (TN) and Adjacent States of Arkansas (AR) and Mississippi (MS)(note vertical exaggeration – strata dip more like 1%) [Courtesy of the Department of Geosciences, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; modified from Brahana et al. (1987)]

  18. Nonrenewable Groundwater • Limited replenishment (recharge) • Limited replenishment, large • storage • Replenished, but over long time • scales • Water is mined (abstraction > R) • Polluted • ‘Decoupled’ from hydrologic cycle

  19. Juggernauts & My Takes

  20. Juggernauts? • 'From IWRM Back to Integrated Water Resources Management’ paper by Mark Giordano & Tushaar Shah (http://is.gd/CpBt1h) An IWRM juggernaut? “Integrated water resources management provides a set of ideas to help us manage water more holistically. However, these ideas have been formalized over time in what has now become, in capitals, Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), with specific prescriptive principles whose implementation is often supported by donor funding and international advocacy. IWRM has now become an end in itself, in some cases undermining functioning water management systems, in others setting back needed water reform agendas, and in yet others becoming a tool to mask other agendas. Critically, the current monopoly of IWRM in global water management discourse is shutting out alternative thinking on pragmatic solutions to existing water problems.”

  21. My Take - Juggernauts You can certainly (and should) support and practice integrated water resources management without buying into the IWRM juggernaut. If you want to call what you do IWRM, I don't have a problem with that. To me, IWRM is an abbreviation describing a process. Giordano and Shah conclude their paper: "As Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues concluded a decade ago: (1) there is no one best system for governing water resources; and (2) many more viable options exist for resource management than envisioned in much of the policy literature. (Ostrom, Stern, & Dietz, 2003). We need to put the problems first and then work to find pragmatic solutions, whether they use IWRM principles or not." - Mark Giordano and Tushaar Shah

  22. My Take - Groundwater • Use of the watershed unit and sustainability requirement could preclude inclusion of nonrenewable groundwater in IWRM. • However, as water resources become further stressed by climate change, population growth, etc., nonrenewable groundwater will become more important as a water source, if only as a buffer or temporary supply. • Recommendation:We do need to consider NR GW • as a component of IWRM (or iwrm) and devise • ways to govern and manage it, perhaps • consideration Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) or the unitization concept (Libecap, 2005)

  23. References – *Cited & General Alley, W.M., T.E .Reilly and O.L. Franke, 1999. Sustainability of Ground- Water Resources. U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1186, 79p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1186/pdf/circ1186.pdf *Brahana, J.V., W.S. Parks, and M.W Gaydos, 1987. Quality of Water from Freshwater Aquifers and Principal Well Fields in the Memphis Area, Tennessee. U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 87-4052, 22p. Cameron, Alan B., 2009. Mississippi v. Memphis: A Study in Transboundary Ground Water Dispute Resolution.Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal Symposium. Oxford, MS, 48p. http://nsglc.olemiss.edu/SGLPJ/Presentations_09/cameron.pdf Eckstein, Gabriel, 2009. International Water Law Project blog. http://www.internationalwaterlaw.org/blog/?p=150 Feldman, David L. and Julia O. Elmendorf, 2000. Water Supply Challenges Facing Tennessee: Case Study Analyses and the Need for Long-term Planning. Knoxville, Tennessee: Energy, Environment and Resources Center, U. of Tennessee-Knoxville http://eerc.ra.utk.edu/divisions/wrrc/water_supply/Report.PDF *Libecap, Gary, 2005. The Problem of Water. http://is.gd/hpOh1g *Renken, Robert A., 1998. Ground Water Atlas of the United States: Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi. U.S. Geological Survey Publication HA-730-F

  24. Thank You!aquadoc@oregonstate.edu WaterWired blog: http://www.waterwired.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/waterwired Latest rant – (Mis)Infographic: More Groundwater Garbage - Dissing Our Largest Unfrozen Freshwater Resource ‪http://bit.ly/1r0lMCF “Water is the Rubik’s Cube of public policy.”– John Laird, California Resources Secretary (suggests there is a solution!) “We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.”– Cicero “The road to help is paved with good intentions.” - Tracy Baker Thanks to Mary Frances for love & support!

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