Global Water Challenges: River Basin Management Opportunities and Risks
A presentation by Don Blackmore
(The presentation has been modified from the original version to remove any copyrighted material)
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implementing these practices Atlanta could use rainwater
more efficiently.
The EF compares human demand on nature with nature’s regenerative capacity.
It is a measure of the demands and the consumption of natural resources by people.
The sizes of ecological footprint vary from country to country and from person to person.
At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a “safe operating space” for human beings.
We have already crossed four “planetary boundaries.” They are the extinction rate; deforestation; the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; and the flow of nitrogen and phosphorous (used on land as fertilizer) into the ocean. Scientist shown human activities — economic growth, technology, consumption — are destabilizing the global environment,”
“What the science has shown is that human activities — economic growth, technology, consumption — are destabilizing the global environment,”
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The World Bank alarm bells are just the latest to sound about the havoc climate change and man-made global warming will cause to the planet.
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3. Ratio of maximum annual flow to
minimum annual flow for selected rivers
15.5MURRAYAUSTRALIA
4705.2DARLINGAUSTRALIA
54.3HUNTERAUSTRALIA
16.9ORANGESOUTH AFRICA
3.9POTOMACUSA
2.4WHITE NILESUDAN
2.0YANGTZECHINA
1.9RHINESWITZERLAND
1.3AMAZONBRAZIL
RATIO BETWEEN
THE MAXIMUM and
the MINIMUM
ANNUAL FLOWS
RIVERCOUNTRY
4. Evolution of Water Management in
Australia
Pioneering and Discovery Phase
1880 – 1920
Delivery Phase 1920 – 1985
Management Phase 1985- Present
5.
6. Dams - How Many?
40,000 over 15m since 1950
• One every 2 days
10. Driving Philosophy:
You can’t manage what you
can’t measure and describe
The Murray-Darling Basin
Must move from
perceptions to fact
“Sufficient certainty”
enables the hard questions
and tradeoffs to be tackled
14. Fact
The next 20+ major dams will have little impact on
mainstream Ganges floods
Major hydro electric benefits exist
Surface irrigation is of low value
Conjunctive water use—huge opportunity—can be
delivered now, a.k.a. the Ganges water machine
Global Circulation Models have not agreed on the
outcome of climate change
Perception
Major dams will deliver multiple benefits, including
the control of Ganges floods
More surface water for irrigation is good
Climate change will have a catastrophic impact
Ganges
20. Fact
China dams deliver a much needed increase in low flow
and mitigate salinity intrusion in the delta. They also
provide scope increase irrigation diversion with little
impact on fisheries
There is significant scope in energy and irrigation
development provided they meet international standards
Perception
Hydro electric dams in China will have a negative effect
on lower riparians
There is little space for development without significant
environmental tradeoffs
Mekong
22. 1. Diminishing water security
Climate change and drought
Urban population growth
2. Over-allocation of resources
Rapid and poorly managed expansion of irrigation
(1960s-1980s)
Uncontrolled groundwater use
Drier climate since 1950s
3. Environmental degradation
Salinity
Toxic algal blooms
Decline in native fish, birds and floodplain vegetation
Australia’s top 3 water issues
24. The Murray-Darling Basin
70% of Australia’s
irrigated agriculture
However...
Serious over-allocation
of water between
1960s-1980s
10500 The Cap
0
8000
16000
24000
32000
'20s
'50s
'80s
(GL)
QLD VIC NSW
MDBC TOTAL
26. National water policy reform (1994-2004)
1994 COAG water reforms
Institutional reform (rural and urban)
Property rights and water markets/trading
Environmental flow provisions
Groundwater management
Water included in National Competition Policy
2004 National Water Initiative
Review and update of 1994 reforms
New powers and role for Commonwealth (Federal)
Government
New Commonwealth Water Act (2007)
Water for the Future fund ($12.9 billion)
Murray-Darling Basin Plan
31. India is taking up the challenge
“Resilience of ecosystems to become a central plank of policy”
“20% increase in water use efficiency of irrigation”
“National Aquifer Management Programme”
“ cut energy losses and stabilise groundwater”
“convert watershed management programme into a productivity enhancing instrument”
“management of liquid and solid waste promoted together with recycling and reuse”
“Indian cities and industries have to reinvent their water trajectory”
“paradigm shift in flood management away from building more embankments”
State Water Regulatory Authorities – “autonomy and accountability”
Model Bill for Protection, Conservation, Management and Regulation of Groundwater
32. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan (2010-11)
Defines ‘Sustainable Diversion Limits’
For 20 River Valleys in MDB (in different States)
Covers surface- and ground-waters
Will consider climate change risks
Protect environmental ‘assets’
Floodplain forests and wetlands
Environmental flows
Water quality and salinity
Political and social implications
State ‘Water Sharing Plans’ must be accredited
Social impacts must be considered
Based on ‘best-available’ science
(evidence-based policy)
This work was carried out by AditiMukerji the 2012 Norman Borlaug award winnerWe found that, after showing high growth in the mid 1980s and early 1990s, West Bengal’s agricultural economy had slowed down with an adverse impact on farmers’ incomes and livelihoods. In recent years, it has barely registered 1% annual growth. The groundwater economy contracted too. For example, according to the Minor Irrigation Census, the number of groundwater wells declined by over 100,000 from 2001 to 2007 – entirely unprecedented in India. This is a paradox given that the same minor irrigation census shows that in 80% of the villages, groundwater is available within less than 10 metres and that groundwater levels recover sufficiently after the monsoon season due to high rainfall (1,500-3,000 mm per year) and the alluvial nature of the aquifer [underground layer of water-bearing rock]. Yet, farmers found it difficult to pump water from aquifers for their crops. Why was this so?We discovered that the reason was that farmers were facing high energy costs for pumping groundwater because of their dependence on diesel pumps and the fact that diesel prices have been increasing quite rapidly since the early 2000s. In West Bengal, only 17% of all pumps are electrified, compared to a national average of over 60%. The electrification of pumps would have been an easy solution, especially since West Bengal has been an electricity surplus state for a long time now. However, we found that farmers faced two difficulties in connecting their pumps to the electricity grid. First was the Groundwater Act of 2005 which required all farmers to procure a permit from the groundwater authority before they could apply for a connection. This process of getting a permit was fraught with red tape and corruption and often led to harassment of farmers by unscrupulous officials. And then, even if a farmer managed to get a permit from the groundwater authorities he then had to pay the full capital cost of electrification of tube wells which was often much beyond the capacity of small and marginal farmers owning less than half a hectare of land.We presented our research findings to DrMihir Shah, Member of the Indian Planning Commission, and with his help we took our results and recommendations to the top bureaucrats in Bengal. We suggested removing the permits system in all places where the groundwater situation is safe. We also suggested rationalising the capital costs of initial electrification. In addition, we suggested that funds from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) should be used in a targeted manner for the excavation of ponds in districts with alluvial aquifers. The government accepted most of these suggestions. On 9th November, 2011, via an administrative order, the Secretary of Water Resources changed the law whereby farmers residing in safe areas and wanting to install pumps with less than 5 Horse Power would no longer require a permit from the groundwater department. Similarly, the West Bengal State Electricity Board has also come out with a circular saying that farmers will have to pay a one-time fixed cost for electrification and this cost will be around Rs. 10,000 or so. They will, of course, then continue to pay a metered tariff. Here, let me emphasise that West Bengal has one of the best agricultural electricity governance regimes in India. Unlike other states where farmers get free and unmetered electricity, in Bengal, electric pumps are metered and farmers pay quite high electricity tariffs for pumping groundwater. This gives them an incentive to make efficient use of groundwater and electricity.With both these policy changes in place, it is expected that farmers will have easier access to groundwater, will be able to intensify their cropping systems, earn more and emerge out of poverty. Together these have the potential to drastically change the nature of agriculture in West Bengal and usher in a second Green Revolution. The state has 7 million land holdings, of which 5.6 million are less than one hectare in size and belong to small and marginal farmers. Thus the possible implications for agricultural output and poverty reduction of these two policy changes are huge. I also think that these policies are replicable in many parts of the eastern Indian states of Bihar and Assam with similar hydro-geological conditions. By providing timely, adequate and reliable irrigation, groundwater helps in reducing poverty.