Talk Organization

1. Integrated Water Resources Management: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process?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, Reno, NV

2. Talk Organization • Introduction to IWRM Emperor & Water King • Shameless Plug – Water Book! • What is IWRM? AWRA & IWRM Resources & Activities • Other Resources: USACE, OWRD • Misgivings: Juggernauts & Groundwater • My Take: Miscellaneous Musings, etc. • The Future of IWRM • Thanks!

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

4. The Water King’s (Emperor’s • Evil Twin) 3 Commandments! • “A fool and water will • go the way they are diverted.” • – African proverb • 2) “Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.” • 3) Bottled water = $3.2M/acre-foot • (see #1)

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

6. What is IWRM? AWRA & IWRM Activities

7. 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]

8. 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/)

9. AWRA Definition of IWRM “…the coordinated planning, development, protection, and management of water, land and related resources in a manner that fosters sustainable economic activity, improves or sustains environmental quality, ensures public health and safety, and provides for the sustainability of communities and ecosystems...” (http://is.gd/6xAJG2)

10. AWRA and IWRM Activities • Multidisciplinary AWRA: well-suited to IWRM • Held Four Water Policy Dialogueshttp://is.gd/aIjto0 • Water Resources IMPACT issue in May 2011; Webinars; Two Reports • Conducted large survey of water professionals on IWRM 2006 • IWRM Policy Statement adopted 2011 • Organized International Specialty Conferences on IWRM in 2011and 2014 • Established IWRM Award in 2012

11. AWRA IWRM Report - Case Studies Case Studies in Integrated Water Resources Management: From Local Stewardship to National Vision A Report by the Policy Committee of the American Water Resources Association Download: http://is.gd/3qgfZl Additional IWRM Resources ($$): http://is.gd/gzZcW2

12. AWRA IWRM Report – Floods and Droughts Proactive Flood and Drought Management Report: A Selection of Applied Strategies and Lessons Learned from Around the United States A Report by the Policy Committee of the American Water Resources Association Download: http://is.gd/M7hlja Additional IWRM Resources ($$): http://is.gd/gzZcW2

13. AWRA IWRM Conferences & More • June 2011- Snowbird, UT - Integrated Water Resources Management: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process? http://is.gd/xLa7UC • Symposium on Collaborative Modeling & IWRM at Snowbird: http://is.gd/u4f8zp • Water Resources IMPACT issue: http://is.gd/21QTGj • Summer 2014 Conference: IWRM – From Theory to Application, 30 June – 2 July, Reno, NV http://is.gd/yz7S7T

14. Other Resources: USACE & Oregon WRD

15. USACE Report: Understanding Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) Download: http://is.gd/8Ih143

16. Oregon: Researching Neighboring States Developed a Discussion Paper & Draft Guidelines (https://bitly.com/1ou046g) Washington Watershed Planning California IRWM Texas Regional Planning

17. Misgivings: Juggernauts & Groundwater

18. Juggernauts? • 'From IWRM Back to Integrated Water Resources Management’ paper by Mark Giordano & Tushaar Shah (http://is.gd/Jrr0JS) 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.”

19. 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?

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

21. 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

22. My Take

23. My Take - Groundwater • 1) Use of the watershed scale and sustainability requirement could preclude inclusion of nonrenewable groundwater in IWRM. • 2) 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. • 3) Recommendation:Need to consider NR GW as a component of IWRM and devise ways to manage it, perhaps in conjunction with Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) or the unitization approach. • (http://is.gd/hpOh1g)

24. 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.   I like how 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

25. My Take: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process? Miscellaneous Musings The Future of IWRM

26. IWRM: The Emperor’s New Clothes or Indispensable Process? • I lean to ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’ • Is IWRM a ‘Juggernaut’? That is hyperbole, although there is a certain element of truth in that statement. • IWRM is not necessarily the only game around nor should it supplant other systems just for the sake of replacement. • ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’

27. Miscellaneous Musings • More consideration of groundwater, including nonrenewable groundwater • Benefits of IWRM v. other approaches • More monitoring, evaluation, and long-term assessment of IWRM • What distinguishes IWRM from other water management approaches? • Address issues broached by Giordano & Shah • IWRM is aspirational • IWRM always struck me as ‘common sense’ – the way water management should be done. Why did it need to be branded ‘IWRM’?

28. The Future of IWRM In 2030 no one will recall what IWRM stood for but the tenets of integrated water resources management will be second nature.

29. 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!