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Border Institute IV Binational Water Management
Planning
Consideration of Opportunities, Costs, Benefits, and Unintended Consequences:
Secure and Sustainable Water in the Border Region by 2020
Rick Van SchoikRio Rico, ArizonaMay 6-8, 2002
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions. But laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind...with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.”
—Thomas Jefferson
Planetary
GeologicalGlobal
Influences
Region
Drought Cycles Tribes, State,
Federal & Int’l Institutions
Our Focus = the Global -Regional Interface(T
em
pora
l Sca
le)
(Spatial Scale)
Now
HereUS
Questions of Scale
This Watershed
This SpringLocal Mgmt.
From the Local and the Immediate...
...To the Regional and Cyclical...
Critical Trends
•Population growth
•Economic asymmetry
•Technological change
•Decentralization
•Deregulation
•Equity
•Resource depletion
•Global change
•Globalization
•Privatization
•Rise of NGOs
Sustainability?
Equity
Environment Economy
What is “Sustainability?”
Env
iron
men
tal D
eter
iora
tion
in P
oor
Are
as
Drastic econom
ic inequities
Low Quality of Life
Sustainability
Equity
Environment Economy
Sustainability
Qua
lity
of th
e C
omm
ons
Quality of G
rowth
Quality of Life
(Conservation / Preservation) (Business Entrepreneurship)
(Community Empowerment)
“Hard” Sciences
Life Sciences
Human Sciences
Management Science
What is “Sustainability Science?”
Sustainability Science
Integrating Willingness, Capacity, and Understanding
WillingnessWilling and
able but ignorant
Capacity
Understanding
Willing and wise but unable
Wise and able but unwilling
Decision-making for
sustainability
Environmental “Reality”
Futures
Optimist Pessimist
Optimist OK Disaster
Pessimist Expensive hedging
OK
Worl
dvie
w
Institutional MandatesChallenge Institution
Meandering river IBWC/CILA
Surface water alloc. IBWC/CILA
Environmental quality BECC/NADB/CEC
Groundwater ?
State-State ?
International Joint Commission
1909 Boundary Water Treaty
Project approval authority
Transboundary impact assessment
Water quality implementation
Air quality, toxics, etc.
U.S. Mexico•Potable
•Raw
•Brackish
•Tertiary
•Secondary
•Primary
•Sewage
•Seawater
•Potable
•Raw
•Brackish
•Tertiary
•Secondary
•Primary
•Sewage
•Seawater
Eco-systems services
Agriculture
Fire-fighting
Groundwater recharge
Power plant cooling
Water Quality Availabilities
TransborderIntervention
Potential Water Exchanges
U.S. MexicoTransborder Intervention
Wastewater Lagoon treatmt. Riparian rechge.
Infrastructure Wheeling Municipal
Wastewater Binat’l WWTP Wastewater
Floods Binat’l storage Excess srfc. flow
Municipal Fallow Agriculture
Transfer Binat’l aqueduct Transfer
Conceptualizing Binational Water Planning...
1) PlumbingSourcing
Transfers
Storage
Security
Use
Reuse
Treatment
Disposal
Quality
2) Necessary Considerations
Interdependencies, Energy,
Ecosystems
Database,Knowledge Sharing,
Monitoring, Indicators
3) Institutional FrameworkGovernance
Capacity
Equitable Access
Water for Poor
Finance
Municipal vs. IndustrialAgriculture vs. Environment
4) Equity