Common Waters, Diverging Streams

by Blomquist, William A.; Schlager, Edella; Heikkila, Tanya

• ISBN13: 9781891853838
• ISBN10: 189185383X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-30
• Publisher: ROUTLEDGE

Summary

This book is a first hand investigation into water management in a fast-growing region of the arid American West. It presents three states that adopted the conjunctive management (CJM) of groundwater and surface water to make resources go further in serving people and the environment. CJM has followed a different history, been practiced differently, and produced different outcomes in each state. The authors question why different results have emerged from neighbors trying to solve similar problems with the same policy reform. The first book on conjunctive water management, Common Waters, Diverging Streams describes how CJM came into existence, how it is practiced, and what it does and does not accomplish. A further contribution is its linkages between institutions and policy outcomes. Scholars often declare that institutions matter, but few works provide an explicit study of how policy linkages operate in practice. The authors show how diverging courses in CJM can be explained by state laws and regulations, legal doctrines, the organizations governing and managing water supplies, and the division of authority between levels of government.

Author Biography

Edella Schlager is associate professor in the School of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Arizona.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART 1 Common Waters: Managing Surface Water and Groundwater Resources Together
Water Scarcity, Management, and Institutions	3	(19)
The Promise of Conjunctive Water Management	22	(16)
Opportunities and Obstacles for Conjunctive Management	38	(15)
PART 2 How Institutions Matter: Institutions and Conjunctive Management in California, Arizona, and Colorado
California	53	(21)
Arizona	74	(17)
Colorado	91	(24)
PART 3 Institutions and Policy Change: Analysis and Recommendations
Tracing and Comparing Institutional Effects	115	(21)
Future Directions of the Diverging Streams	136	(18)
Shaping the Future: Institutional Changes to Improve Water Management	154	(13)
Appendix. The Three States: Why We Chose Them, and What We Did	167	(6)
Notes	173	(10)
Bibliography	183	(14)
Index	197