Watershed Management and Restoration
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, watershed management is the continuous process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects with partners using a multi-disciplinary and adaptive approach to sustain and enhance natural watersheds. Resources available in this sub-theme include watershed management technical reports, tools to assess flows in ecosystems, and other resources that support sustainable watershed management and restoration.
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Watershed Management and Restoration Resources
Understanding and Reducing the Risks of Climate Change for Transboundary Waters
Published:
December 1, 2009Pacific Institute
This report outlines some of the risks that climate change poses to transboundary water agreements. In the following sections, the Pacific Institute defines the extent and general characteristics of transboundary rivers and aquifers and describe some of the institutional structures that have been...Read more
Water-use Efficiency and Productivity: Rethinking the Basin Approach
Published:
December 4, 2011Pacific Institute
This article analyzes three fundamental flaws in the traditional approach to water-efficiency or the “basin approach,” including the assumption that all consumptive water use is beneficial, a lack of attention to water productivity measures, and the numerous, important “co-benefits” that are...Read more
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