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Sustainable Water Resource Use: Proposed Indicators

Sustainable Water Resource Use: Proposed Indicators. Rhonda Kranz November 15, 2007. Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable. A national collaboration of federal, state, local, corporate, non-profit, and academic interests. Our Mission.

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Sustainable Water Resource Use: Proposed Indicators

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  1. Sustainable Water Resource Use: Proposed Indicators Rhonda Kranz November 15, 2007

  2. Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable A national collaboration of federal, state, local, corporate, non-profit, and academic interests

  3. Our Mission To promote sustainability of our nation’s resources through … • Evaluation of information • Development & use of indicators • Targeting of research • Engagement of people & partners

  4. Principles of Water Sustainability • The value & limits of water • Shared responsibility • Equitable access • Stewardship

  5. Essential Relationships of Sustainability Biophysical Environment Economic System Ecosystems Social System

  6. Fisheries Systems Perspective Biophysical Environment Economic System Fisheries laws, institutions, customs and communities Aquatic & related ecosystems Markets, capital and labor Social System

  7. Information Pyramid Fewer Pieces Of Information Stories Criteria Indicators More Pieces Of Information Measurements

  8. Ecosystem Processes& SocietalDrivers Ecosystems Society Natural Processes: Disturbance & Response Energy Cycling Hydrologic Cycle & Flow Regime Materials Cycling Social & Economic Drivers: Economic Development Energy Production and Use Land Use Population Growth Transportation Ecosystem goods & services time time Human alterations & discharges

  9. Indicators Measures that present trends and information relevant to water sustainability in a readily understandable way

  10. Indicator Roles and Uses • Local – Regional – National – International • Government – industry – academic – NGO (environmental, health, community, etc)

  11. Damn!

  12. Iterative Indicator Identification Process • 386 candidate indicators • Initial framework • Meetings and discussion/revisions • Current proposed 5 part framework

  13. Proposed Framework for Organizing Water Sustainability Indicators • Water availability • Water quality • Human uses and health • Environmental health • Infrastructure and institutions

  14. A. Water Availability • Renewable water resources • Water in the environment • Water use sustainability

  15. Ground Water Levelsin the High Plains

  16. Water Use Sustainability Withdrawals as a % of available precipitation, 1995 Figure 4.16.1 Total Freshwater Withdrawal in 1995 (as a percent of available precipitation) Source: S. Roy, K. Summers and R. Goldstein

  17. B. Water Quality • Quality of water for human uses • Quality of water in the environment • Water quality sustainability

  18. Nitrate Load Carried by Major Rivers

  19. Impaired Waters (U.S. EPA, 2002)

  20. C. Human Uses and Health • Withdrawal and use of water • Human uses of water in the environment • Water-dependent resource use • Human health

  21. Trends in Total US Water Withdrawals, 1950-2000

  22. Public Participation in Freshwater Recreation

  23. Reported Incidence of Waterborne Disease

  24. D. Environmental Health • Indices of biological condition • Amounts and quality of living resources

  25. Environmental Conditions Overall national and regional coastal condition between 1997 and 2000 Source: U.S. EPA, December 2004. National Coastal Condition Report II. Office of Research and Development/Office of Water. EPA-620/R-03/002.

  26. E. Infrastructure and Institutions • Capacity and reliability of infrastructure • Efficacy of institutions

  27. Population Lacking Complete Plumbing Source: Rural Community Assistance Partnership 2004

  28. Some Key SWRR Tasks • Continue to refine the indicators • Continue to consult with other indicator initiatives and find ways to make sure are efforts are complimentary and not duplicative • Target sectors which have not had a lot of input • Address scalability of indicators to local, regional, national, international levels.

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