Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2229134
R. Stephan, J. Nickum
Dear readers, Our fourth issue for 2023 is again composed of articles from the open submissions assembled under two thematic categories: water governance and transboundary waters. In addition we have included an article from the International Water Resources Association’s (IWRA) Publication Mentoring Initiative. We close the issue with two book reviews. Under the usual category water governance, we have included four articles offering good geographical diversity and a variety in the topics. Guba et al. study the sustainability of multiple-use water systems (MUS). This is a topic we have already published on for the case of Nepal (Clement et al. 2019; Raj et al. 2022). The focus here is on two rural communities in north-western Ghana, which have benefitted from a MUS project. MUS is designed and managed to consider the several uses of water; it focuses on expanding access to water for domestic and productive uses such as small-scale agriculture or microenterprises. In theory, the MUS approach involves low financial costs and moderate investment. The authors confirm the potential of the MUS approach to improve livelihoods in rural Ghana. It has enhanced traditional sources of livelihood and created new opportunities. Unfortunately in the studied communities, the MUS approach did not last, leading to social disruptions. The reason, as is often the case, is the lack of capacities to adopt new approaches that are introduced. According to the authors, capacity-building is required for technical support and creating innovative fund-raising strategies. With Krpesova and Raska we move to Central Europe and, more precisely, to Czechia. In Europe, floods represent the most serious natural hazards, and Czechia is one of the most affected countries. The authors present a study of the municipal flood plans that represent the most decentralized flood planning documents that complement the obligatory flood risk management plans. The European Union Floods Directive of 2007 aimed at regulating flood risk and has stimulated a shift from traditional flood protection towards holistic and adaptive flood risk management. The new approach represents a challenge for policymaking and risk governance schemes, and requires a collaborative multistakeholder process calling for the integration of spatial planning and water management in flood risk management. Based on this evolution, the authors have explored the processes of drafting the municipal flood plans in Czechia and the practical value assigned to these plans by municipal representatives. According to their findings, the municipalities are well motivated to draft flood plans but have limited capacities. Collaborative efforts remain weak, and in the end the flood plans, which are inadequate, lie unused. There is no doubt that the situation needs improvement with more integration of local and national expectations in a more collaborative process. WATER INTERNATIONAL 2023, VOL. 48, NO. 4, 441–443 https://doi.org/10.1080/
亲爱的读者们，我们2023年第4期的文章仍然由公开提交的文章组成，分为两个主题类别:水治理和跨界水域。此外，我们还收录了一篇来自国际水资源协会(IWRA)出版指导倡议的文章。我们以两篇书评作为本期的结束语。在通常的水治理类别下，我们收录了四篇文章，提供了良好的地理多样性和主题多样性。Guba等人研究了多用途水系统(MUS)的可持续性。这是我们已经就尼泊尔的情况发表的一个主题(Clement et al. 2019;Raj et al. 2022)。这里的重点是加纳西北部的两个农村社区，这两个社区从一个MUS项目中受益。MUS的设计和管理考虑了水的几种用途;它的重点是扩大家庭用水和生产用水，如小规模农业或微型企业。理论上，MUS方法涉及低财务成本和适度投资。这组作者证实了MUS方法在改善加纳农村生计方面的潜力。它增加了传统的生计来源，创造了新的机会。不幸的是，在被研究的社区中，MUS方法并没有持续下去，导致社会混乱。原因往往是缺乏采纳新办法的能力。这组作者认为，技术支持和创造创新的筹资战略需要能力建设。随着Krpesova和Raska，我们来到中欧，更准确地说，来到捷克。在欧洲，洪水是最严重的自然灾害，捷克是受影响最严重的国家之一。作者提出了一项研究，代表了最分散的洪水规划文件，补充了强制性洪水风险管理计划。2007年欧盟洪水指令旨在调节洪水风险，并刺激了从传统的洪水保护向全面和适应性洪水风险管理的转变。这种新方法对政策制定和风险治理方案提出了挑战，需要一个多方合作的过程，要求将空间规划和水管理整合到洪水风险管理中。基于这一演变，作者探讨了捷克起草市政防洪计划的过程以及市政代表赋予这些计划的实用价值。根据他们的调查结果，市政当局很有动机起草防洪计划，但能力有限。合作努力仍然很弱，最终，不充分的防洪计划被搁置。毫无疑问，这种情况需要改善，在一个更加协作的进程中更多地结合地方和国家的期望。《国际水》，第48卷，第2023期。4,441 - 443 https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2023.2229134
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2213001
E. Hoominfar
ABSTRACT This comparative study explores how environmental movements in two different political economies, the US state of Colorado and western Iran, have experienced and framed water transfer projects as a mechanism for the marketization of water. It applies Polanyi’s and Harvey’s theories, using interviews with diverse social groups and various secondary data sources. The results show that, according to both social movements, water’s marketization has some similarities in terms of the commodification and commercialization of water. Still, different processes, means and mechanisms are used. The article highlights these similarities and differences by looking at the state’s role in two different contexts: a capitalist democracy (the United States) and a capitalist centralized statist system (Iran). The study finds that while some outcomes might be the same in Colorado and Iran for achieving the marketization of water, the means that the state/market uses to achieve those ends are different.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2209502
B. Guba, N. Fielmua, D. T. Mwingyine
ABSTRACT This study examines the sustainability of multiple-use water systems (MUS) and the associated livelihood issues among women gardeners in north-western Ghana. Focus group discussions and observation techniques were used as part of a qualitative approach to data collection. We found that the MUS strategy has the ability to improve livelihoods. However, the viability of the strategy necessitates technical assistance and innovative fund-raising strategies. The MUS facility (the hope of the people) failed because these conditions were inadequate. Due to the beneficiaries’ worsening situation, alternative livelihoods were adopted, such as the migration of married women to southern Ghana, the production of charcoal and the harvesting of wild fruits.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2222478
B. Nguyen
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2226514
Z. Rosenblum, S. Schmeier
ABSTRACT Where wetlands transcend country borders, cooperation is key for their management, comparable with transboundary rivers and lakes. Building on existing research on rivers, lakes and groundwater, this paper uses document analysis and interviews to understand how countries work together on transboundary wetlands. First, indicators of cooperation are identified based on the water diplomacy literature. These are then applied to three wetlands, finding strong evidence of cooperation in the Wadden Sea, moderate evidence in the Okavango Delta and no evidence in the Hamoun Wetlands. Wetland cooperation seems highest where it is institutionalized.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-19DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2226990
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Pub Date : 2023-04-06DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2192456
Seungho Lee
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2195724
Mingna Wang, Yang Liu
ABSTRACT The development of smart water in drainage systems can achieve real-time monitoring, analysis and control from rainfall to urban rivers, water-users and sewage-treatment plants. Relying on artificial intelligence, smart water can achieve inundation control. This article summarizes the recent advances of smart water in China from three aspects: data collection, data storage and data analysis, seeking to understand the current development from the important points of smart water technology. At the end, we point out the challenges in the development of the smart water drainage system, and provide the perspectives for the future development of smart water.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2204614
Yingxin Guo, Y. Liang, Haoyan Liu, H. Xu, Chenchen Zhao
ABSTRACT The main hindrance to implementation of domestic sewage treatment plant-network integration in China is the separated assessment method. The assessment method of plant-network integration links payment for sewage treatment to incoming pollutants, and payment for maintenance of the pipe network to the concentration of pollutants in incoming water. It helps establish an interactive link between the city and district, and motivates operation and management stakeholder groups. The method contains index system formulation, target value determination, assessment payment plan specification and city-district payment proportion clarification. It provides a solution for the current drainage management by promoting plant-network integration.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2023.2202497
This well-cited and very readable article draws on examples from the settler colonial states of Canada and the United States to illustrate how jurisdictional and regulatory injustices along with broader political and economic asymmetries gen-erate water insecurity for Indigenous peoples and how those affected are pushing back by revitalizing Indigenous knowledge and governance systems. It blends historical and ethnographic analysis very well
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