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1 Azevedo, L. G.; Gates, T. K.; Fontane, D. G. 1994. Integration of water quantity and quality planning. In Fontane, D. G.; Tuvel, H. N. (Eds.), Water policy and management: Solving the problems: Proceedings of the 21st annual conference, ASCE, Denver, Colorado, May 23-26, 1994. New York, NY, USA: ASCE. pp.388-391.
River basin development ; Planning ; Water demand ; Water quality ; Simulation models / Brazil / Sao Paulo / Piracicaba River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 FON Record No: H019827)
2 Moraes, J. M.; Pellegrino, G. Q.; Ballester, M. V.; Martinelli, L. A.; Victoria, R. L.; Krusche, A. V. 1998. Trends in hydrological parameters of a southern Brazilian watershed and its relation to human induced changes. Water Resources Management, 12(4):295-311.
Hydrology ; Watersheds ; River basins ; Water resource management ; Statistical analysis / Brazil / Piracicaba River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H023395)
3 de Azevedo, L. G. T.; Gates, T. K.; Fontane, D. G.; Labadie, J. W.; Porto, R. L. 2000. Integration of water quantity and quality in strategic river basin planning. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 126(2):85-97.
River basin development ; Strategy planning ; Water quality ; Water allocation ; Water supply ; Simulation models / Brazil / Sao Paulo / Piracicaba River Basin
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H025919)
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4 Barth, F. T. 2003. The experience of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and its repercussions on the national scene. In Tortajada, C.; Braga, B. P. F.; Biswas, A. K.; Garcia, L. E. (Eds.). Water policies and institutions in Latin America. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. pp.87-112.
Water scarcity ; Population growth ; River basins ; Water pollution ; Water resource management ; Legislation / Brazil / Sao Paulo / Parana River / Upper Tiete Basin / Piracicaba River Basin / Paraiba do Sul River Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G302 TOR Record No: H041098)
5 Trimble, M.; Olivier, T.; Anjos, L. A. P.; Tadeu, N. D.; Giordano, G.; Donnell, L. M.; Laura, R.; Salvadores, F.; Santana-Chaves, I. M.; Torres, P. H. C.; Pascual, M.; Jacobi, P. R.; Mazzeo, N.; Zurbriggen, C.; Garrido, L.; Jobbagy, E.; Pahl-Wostl, C. 2022. How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America. Ecology and Society, 27(2):42. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13356-270242]
River basins ; Committees ; Water governance ; Centralization ; Water supply ; Watersheds ; Drinking water ; Stakeholders ; Participation ; Case studies / South America / Argentina / Brazil / Uruguay / Chubut River Basin / Piracicaba River Basin / Capivari River Basin / Jundiai River Basin / Laguna del Cisne Basin
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051463)
https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss2/art42/ES-2022-13356.pdf
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https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051463.pdf
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Adaptive water governance involves collaboration among multiple actors, social learning, and flexibility to deal with shocks and surprises. Crises thus become a useful context to assess how the institutional arrangements contribute to adaptation. However, an important part of the specialized literature has focused on these issues as they occur in highly institutionalized settings in the Global North. This paper, instead, analyzes basin organizations in settings with variable degrees of institutionalization in South America. The objective is to analyze the actions (or lack thereof) conducted or encouraged by basin committees in watersheds of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, in the face of water crises. We analyze three case studies, involving basin committees that faced different water crises (all affecting drinking water supply) at different scales: (1) Chubut River Basin committee and a turbidity crisis in the Lower Valley in 2017 (Chubut, Argentina), (2) Piracicaba-Capivari-Jundiaí (PCJ) River Basins committee and a drought that occurred in 2014–2015 (São Paulo, Brazil), and (3) Laguna del Cisne Basin commission and a crisis associated with a failure in the water treatment operation in 2019 (Canelones, Uruguay). In each case, we analyze the institutional design of the committee and the actions (or lack thereof) undertaken regarding the crisis, including the perceptions of key stakeholders of those actions. Findings showed that stakeholders tend to act and communicate through fast channels when water crises occur, referring to basin committees only for technical and additional support (Brazil), information sharing (Uruguay), or not convening the committee at all (Argentina). Our cases in South American countries with different contexts provided empirical evidence of the barriers that basin committees face as political– institutional frameworks to foster adaptive water governance (e.g., limited stability, centralization, lack of leadership).
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