Basin Management

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Basin Planning and Management:



Back round

• Chair

– Don Blackmore – E Water Centre Australia

– Eva Abal – IWC – Australia

– Jerem Bird – MRC – Lao PDR

– Xavier Le Flaive –OECD – France

– Toshiyuki Yoshioka –NARBO – Japan

– Ian Makin ADB (and Anchor)

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• Basin management – front and center

• Benchmarking organizational performance

• Scorecards for

reporting

basin

health



Basin management:

front and center • Recognition of emerging crisis

– 40%

a

between su l

and

demand

b

2020

– 80% of rivers in poor health

–

extremes

• Effective management of water resources will

be critical

to

mitigating

the

water

crisis



Voice for waterwa s: Paradigm shifts on how we view rivers & waterways

Rivers as Rivers for

source of

water

Rivers as

sewers

Rivers as

a lifestyle

future

generation

service‐based outcome‐based

reactive risk‐based/strategic

• Providin an assessment of state of or

condition of waterways

• Tracking the effectiveness of protection and

res ora on ac ons

• Integral part of the adaptive management

cycle



Basin management:

Our choice is not IF • But WHEN and HOW basin management will

be im roved!

• Management institutions are evolving; river

,

,

are emerging

• Improving management of resources is

demanded b industr communities and

environment



• Performance indicators must be:

– Accessible – easily available and accurate – Objective – independent of who measures – Reliable – unaffected by confounding variables – Valid – a real measure of the performance

• a ano

ur on

e ne

enc mar ng

as:“A systematic process for securing continual improvement

or external norms and standards”

• NARBO adopted

the

balanced

score

card

as

a means

to

improve basin management



Stakeholders

MissionLearning

and

Finance

Internal

Procedures



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River Basin Score Cards:

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responses of rivers to management interventions.

complex amounts of information to be

communicated to a broad audience

– Identify regions or issues of concern

– Direct focus mana ement action:

impetus for

some

costly

(but

environmentally important) intervention

• Accountability: Measure the success of

a

particular

effort communication activities



River Basin Score Cards: to the people who make a difference



River Basin Score Cards:

increase community

awareness…



River Basin Score Cards: management actions



A Score Card for-

(AWDO 2010)

River Health Pressures/Threats Vulnerability/Resilience

Vorosmarty et al., 2010

Alteration to

Natural Flows

Biological

Factors

A S C d f



A Score Card for-

(AWDO 2010)

80% of Rivers in Asia-Pacific are in poor condition…



Studying and Solving the Problem(thanks to Bill Dennison)

Data Information Knowledge

STUDY SOLVE

• Dispassionate• Embrace complexity

• Passionate• Simplify

• u s un ng v a peerreview

• Getting it right

stakeholders

• Getting it doneIn order to both study and solve problems, credibility, tenacity, creativity

and virtue are needed

s om s now ng w at to o next; virtue is doing it.”

David S. David S.

Jordan Jordan



1. Balancin ri hts roles and

responsibilities of the state, civil

society, and

private

sector.

2. Do conditions in each basin have to

become so untenable before action is

ta en

3. What is needed to encourage the

and report cards to enable

their rivers. ?

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