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Basin Water Allocation Planning United Nations © GIWP Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Basin water allocation planning Principles, Procedures and Approaches for Basin Allocation Planning Principles, Procedures and Approaches for Basin Allocation Planning As water scarcity has increased globally, water allocation plans and agreements have taken on increasing significance in resolving international, regional and local conflicts over access to water. This book considers modern approaches to dealing with these issues at the basin scale, particularly through the allocation of water amongst administrative regions. Drawing on experiences from around the world, this book distils best practice approaches to water allocation in large and complex basins and provides an overview of emerging good practice. Part A includes discussion of the evolution of approaches to water allocation, provides a framework for water allocation planning at the basin scale, and discusses approaches to deciding and defining shares to water and to Basin Water dealing with variability and uncertainty related to water availability. Part B describes some of the techniques involved in water allocation planning, including assessing and implementing environmental flows and the use of socio-economic assessments in the Allocation planning process. Planning Principles, Procedures and Approaches for Basin Allocation Planning Asian Development Bank UNESCO 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 7, place de Fontenoy 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines 75352 Paris 07 SP www.adb.org France www.unesco.org GIWP (General Institute of Water WWF International Resources and Hydropower Av. du Mont-Blanc Planning and Design, 1196 Gland Ministry of Water Resources) Switzerland 2-1, Liupukang Beixiao Street, www.panda.org Xicheng District, Beijing, China. www.giwp.org.cn Part of a series on strategic water management Printed on recycled paper Basin Water Allocation Planning Principles, Procedures and Approaches for Basin Allocation Planning Robert Speed, Li Yuanyuan, Tom Le Quesne, Guy Pegram and Zhou Zhiwei About the authors environmental policy issues in China and India. Tom has published a number of reviews of water management and environmental issues, including work on Robert Speed is director of Okeanos Pty Ltd, a consultancy company specializing water allocation, environmental flows and climate change. Tom holds a Masters in water resources policy and strategy. Robert has 15 years experience in and PhD in economics. environmental and water policy and management, with an expertise in water resources planning, the implementation of environmental flows, and river health Guy Pegram is the managing director of Pegasys Strategy and Development assessment. Robert has qualifications in science and environmental law. He has based in Cape Town, South Africa, with 25 years professional experience in worked professionally in Australia, China, India, Ecuador, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, the water sector. He is a professionally registered civil engineer with a PhD in and Laos. water resources planning from Cornell University and an MBA from University of Cape Town. He has worked extensively on strategic, institutional, financial Li Yuanyuan is Vice-President, Professor, and Senior Engineer of the General and organisational aspects related to the water sector within SADC, Africa Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design at the and globally. In particular he has been actively involved with water resources Chinese Ministry of Water Resources. He studied hydrology and water resources institutional and policy reform processes in various African countries, and has in Chengdu University of Science and Technology. His research fields include been extensively involved in strategic basin planning, institutional and legal water resources mechanisms, the interaction between human activities and processes for both national and transboundary river basins. water resources, water resources system analysis and planning, water ecology and environment protection. He has led at the national-level many water resources Zhou Zhiwei is Division Deputy Chief of the General Institute of Water Resources surveys, the development of water resources strategies, comprehensive water and Hydropower Planning and Design at the Ministry of Water Resources. He is resources planning activities, policy formulation, and management activities, as a senior engineer with a master degree in hydrology and water resources from well as international programmes. He is widely published on water-related topics. Tsinghua University. His main fields of work include water resources analysis, water resources planning, water resources allocation, water resources policy and Tom Le Quesne is a Senior Policy Advisor at WWF-UK. Tom works on water policy management. He is also involved in many international cooperation programmes. and sustainability issues across the WWF Network, including work in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. This has included a particular focus on water and Citation Health and Environmental Flow in China Project. WWF and GIWP would like to extend their thanks to HSBC, AusAID and ADB for their support for this project. R. Speed, Li Y., T. Le Quesne, G. Pegram and Z. Zhiwei (2013) Basin Water Allocation Planning. Principles, procedures and approaches for basin allocation planning, Disclaimer UNESCO, Paris. The opinions expressed in this book are those of the authors and do not necessarily Acknowledgements reflect the views and policies of WWF, GIWP, UNESCO and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) or its Board of Governors or the governments they represent. 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South Africa (Chapters 1 and 4), Barbara Schreiner, Pegasys Strategy and Development, South Africa (Chapter 4), Jim Binney, MainStream Pty Ltd, Australia ISBN 978-92-3-001158-1 (Chapters 7 and 11) and Jane Catford, Melbourne University, Australia (Chapter 10). Reviews of Chapter 10 were provided by Scott Spencer (Australia) and Angela Copyright Arthington (Griffith University, Australia). An anonymous reviewer provided valuable © Asian Development Bank, GIWP, UNESCO, and WWF-UK, 2013 comments on an earlier draft. All rights reserved. The following people have contributed to the layout, figures and final editorial of the book: Karis McLaughlin, Alicia Doherty (WWF-UK), Ian Denison, Shahbaz Khan, Alain Michel Tchadie, Martin Wickenden, Aurelia Mazoyer (UNESCO) and Susan Curran (copy editor). Principal funding for the project has been provided by HSBC through the HSBC Climate Partnership. Additional funding support for publication has been provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Writing of Chapter 10 on environmental flow assessment, and publication costs, were supported by funding from the Australian Agency for International Development, AusAID, as part of the River 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As water scarcity has increased globally, water allocation plans ▶▶ A better balance between rights to take water and and agreements have taken on increasing significance in protection of the environment: in recognition of the resolving international, regional and local conflicts over access natural limits of river systems and the need to protect to water. While objectives and approaches have evolved over natural infrastructure.