Border Institute IV Binational Water Management Planning

1. 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 Schoik Rio Rico, Arizona May 6-8, 2002

2. “Imaginationis more important than Knowledge.”

3. “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

4. Questions of Scale Geological Global Influences Drought Cycles Tribes, State, Federal & Int’l Institutions This Spring Local Mgmt. Planetary This Watershed Region Our Focus = the Global -Regional Interface ...To the Regional and Cyclical... From the Local and the Immediate... (Temporal Scale) Now US Here (Spatial Scale)

5. Critical Trends • Population growth • Economic asymmetry • Technological change • Decentralization • Deregulation • Equity • Resource depletion • Global change • Globalization • Privatization • Rise of NGOs

6. What is “Sustainability?” Equity Sustainability? Drastic economic inequities Environmental Deterioration in Poor Areas Low Quality of Life Environment Economy

7. Sustainability Equity (Community Empowerment) Sustainability Quality of Growth Quality of the Commons Quality of Life Environment Economy (Conservation / Preservation) (Business Entrepreneurship)

8. “Hard” Sciences Life Sciences Sustainability Science Human Sciences Management Science What is “Sustainability Science?”

9. Willingness Capacity Understanding Integrating Willingness, Capacity, and Understanding Willing and able but ignorant Decision-making for sustainability Wise and able but unwilling Willing and wise but unable

10. Policy-making Influence Knowledge

11. Environmental “Reality” Worldview

12. An Example PHX LA SD TJ

13. Major Flows, Diversions, and Returns, Lower Colorado River System

14. Institutional Mandates

15. International Joint Commission

16. Eco-systems services Groundwater recharge Agriculture Power plant cooling Fire-fighting Transborder Intervention Water Quality Availabilities Potential Water Exchanges U.S. Mexico • Potable • Raw • Brackish • Tertiary • Secondary • Primary • Sewage • Seawater • Potable • Raw • Brackish • Tertiary • Secondary • Primary • Sewage • Seawater

17. Transborder Intervention Wastewater Lagoon treatmt. Riparian rechge. Municipal Fallow Agriculture Floods Binat’l storage Excess srfc. flow Transfer Binat’l aqueduct Transfer Infrastructure Wheeling Municipal Wastewater Binat’l WWTP Wastewater U.S. Mexico

18. “A diversity of connections is part of the package.”—Commissioner Arturo Herrera Solís

19. Conceptualizing Binational Water Planning... 1) Plumbing Sourcing Reuse Transfers Treatment Use Storage Disposal Security

20. 2) Necessary Considerations Interdependencies, Energy, Ecosystems Database, Knowledge Sharing, Monitoring, Indicators Quality

21. 3) Institutional Framework Governance Capacity Equitable Access Water for Poor Finance 4) Equity Municipal vs. Industrial Agriculture vs. Environment

22. Brainstorming Binational Water Planning Problems / Challenges Objectives/ Proposed Solutions Unintended Consequences Existing Framework Incentives/ Implementation/ Demonstrations