This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Water International.
This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures.
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.3 on Water and Sanitation emphasizes the centrality of improving water quality to attain sustainable development. Yet the obstacles to achieving this goal are significant. This book explores the variety of difficult, possibly intractable wicked problems of water quality governance around the world. Cases include the challenge of managing water from source to sea, exploring why attempts to do so have come up short in limiting harm to the Great Barrier Reef; differing social discourses on market based instruments in Canada; efforts to bring to closure the human legacies of Minamata methyl mercury poisoning half a century ago in Japan; current problems of mercury use in Andean mining; misalignment of established Eastern European water laws with those of the EU; water quality markets in China; the impacts of service coverage and quality on low income households in countries from New Zealand to Bangladesh and Malawi; the importance of perceptions, ranging from the use of treated wastewater by farmers in the MENA region to consumers in Fukushima and to users of the artificial river in Beijings Olympic Park; and finally the confluence of wicked problems in refugee camps facing COVID.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal, Water International.
Introduction: The Wicked Problems of Water Quality Governance
1. IWRAs
water quality project, including the report Developing a Global Compendium on
Water Quality Guidelines
2. Wicked problems facing integrated water quality
management: what IWRA experts tell us
3. Water quality management from source
to sea: from global commitments to coordinated implementation
4. Adaptive or
aspirational? Governance of diffuse water pollution affecting Australias
Great Barrier Reef
5. The social discourses on market-based instruments to
manage non-point-source water pollution in the Oldman River basin, southern
Alberta
6. Minamata: how a policy maker addressed a very wicked water quality
policy problem
7. Mercury pollution in Colombia: challenges to reduce the use
of mercury in artisanal and small-scale gold mining in the light of the
Minamata Convention
8. Water laws of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine: current
problems and integration with EU legislation
9. The evolution of markets for
water pollution allowances in China: a case study of Jiaxing
10. Service
levels for the four billion people with piped water on premises
11. Water and
sanitation in Dhaka slums: access, quality, and informality in service
provision
12. Poor water service quality in developed countries may have a
greater impact on lower-income households
13. Quality matters: incorporating
water quality into water access monitoring in rural Malawi
14. Radiation
knowledge and willingness to buy bottled water from regions near the
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
15. Farmer perceptions regarding
irrigation with treated wastewater in the West Bank, Tunisia, and Qatar
16.
Issues and challenges of reclaimed water usage: a case study of the
dragon-shaped river in the Beijing Olympic Park
17. The potential impact of
water quality on the spread and control of COVID-19 in Syrian refugee camps
in Lebanon
18. Exploring challenges in safe water availability and
accessibility in preventing COVID-19 in refugee settlements
James E. Nickum, Fellow, Global Reach Awardee and former Vice-President of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), is the Editor in Chief of Water International, non-resident Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Raya Marina Stephan is Fellow and Former Director of IWRA. She is an expert in water law, and an international consultant in water related projects with international organizations. She is the Deputy Editor in Chief of Water International.
Henning Bjornlund is Fellow and Vice President of the International Water Resources Association and Research Professor in Water Management and Policy at the University of South Australia. He has been researching water management and policy issues in Australia since 1993, in Canada since 2005, and in southern Africa since 2013 working with partners in Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and South Africa.
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