Presentation by Judith ter Maat (Deltares) at the River Basin Planning and Modelling symposium, during Delft Software Days - Edition 2017. Wednesday, 25 October 2017, Delft.

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Establishing Integrated Water Resources Management
for River Basins Planning guidelines
Judith ter Maat, Laura Basco Carrera, Monica Altamirano,
Eelco van Beek, Tjitte Nauta

2. Sustainable Development Goals
What is SDG 6.5
about?
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3. Sustainable Development Goal 6.5
SDG 6.5
Target:
By 2030, implement integrated water resources management at all
levels, including through transboundary cooperation
Indicators:
• Degree of integrated water resources management
implementation (0-100)
• Proportion of transboundary basin area with an operational
arrangement for water cooperation as appropriate
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4. Content
• How to implement IWRM?
• Framework of Analysis
• I - Inception
• II - Situation analysis
• III - Strategy building
• IV - Action planning
• V - Implementation
• Including short introduction role of models in RBM
planning
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5. What is Integrated Water Resources Management?
4 PRINCIPLES OF IWRM (Dublin Principles)
Principle 1: Fresh water is a finite and vulnerable resource, essential to sustain life,
development and the environment.
Principle 2: Water development and management should be based on a participatory
approach, involving users, planners and policy makers at all levels.
Principle 3: Women play a central part in the provision, management and safeguarding of
water.
Principle 4: Water has an economic value in all its competing uses and should be recognized
as an economic good as well as a social good.
IWRM is a process which promotes the co-ordinated development and
management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximize
the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without
compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.
GWP, 2000
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6. How to implement IWRM?
(GWP&INBO, 2009)
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7. How to implement IWRM?
Steps
1. Create an enabling environment
2. Set-up a basin management organization
3. Arrange the financing of the activities
4. Involve stakeholders
5. Develop a strategic long-term IWRM plan
6. Develop a short-term action (project) plan
7. Create a basin information and monitoring system
8. Arrange communication
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8. Why planning?
WRM has many actors – their activities should be tuned
towards a common vision and goal
• agreed upon objective of management needed
In most cases there are many issues – which are the most
important?
• setting priorities
Many management options (measures) are possible –
which are the best?
• balancing of interests
• analysis of benefits and costs
Make clear what has to be done and who will be
responsible
• make a clear work plan and action plan, including investment
planning
Assessing the risks involved
• make a risk assessment and determining remedial actions
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9. Planning cycle
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10. Deltares, GWP, IHE
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11. IWRM Framework of analysis
The IWRM planning guidelines consist of 5 main phases in which the analysis
should be carried out (‘Framework of analysis’):
I. Inception – sets the boundary conditions for the analysis
II. Situation Analysis – describes the present and future WR problems
III. Strategy building – develops alternative strategies for decision making
IV. Action planning – prepares investments
V. Implementation – actual implementation of measures, monitoring and
guidance.
Steps IV and V are closely linked !
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12. IWRM as a process…
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Situation analysis
Inception
Action planning
Strategy buildingImplementation
Progressof
IWRM
IWRM planning
cycle
I
V
II
III
IV

13. Stakeholders and decision making
Participatory and informed planning and decision making
process
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14. IWRM Framework of analysis
• Not a new idea or concept: most steps are
common sense
• Power of framework is that steps are made
explicit in a systematic way, enabling a good
co-ordination and integration of disciplines and
interaction with stakeholders
• Various frameworks exist
• all can be good
• systematic approach important, not framework
and/or terminology
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15. Note
Chapter 13 of WRS book
Loucks – van Beek
Springer edition 2017
Book/chapter downloadable
from Springer website
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16. IWRM Framework
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17. Phase I - Inception
Step 1: Creating enabling conditions
 Enabling Environment at national level
o national water legislation and national policies that
guide the planning process and enables
enforcement
 Institutional Framework
o existence of water institutions at national and
regional level with qualified staff
o at river basin level some kind of river basin
organization (RBO) should be in place
 Management instruments
o the availability of data and tools (models) that
enables informed decision making
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18. Phase I - Inception
Step 2: Setting-up stakeholder process
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19. Phase I - Inception
Step 3: Defining analysis conditions
Define the analysis conditions for the planning study:
 The base year for the study
o the most recent year for which basic data on the present
situation is available
 The time horizon(s) for the study
o which may include short term (e.g. 5 years), medium
(e.g. 20 years) and long-term (>25 years)
 The discount rate to be applied in the economic analysis
o as specified by (e.g.) the Ministry of Finance
 System boundaries - the components and the level of
detail that will be included, e.g.
o will the Coastal Zone be included?
o results to be presented at spatial level?
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20. Phase I - Inception
Step 4: Objectives and criteria
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22. Objective of IWRM in the Netherlands
Primary objective (most important): safety and healthy aquatic
ecosystems
Secondary objective (high important): drinking water, industrial and
agricultural water supply, navigation, etc.
Use functions need to be “fitted” into ecological system ==> quite
expensive !
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23. Typical objective of WRD Planning study
Develop the potential of water resources in such a way
that:
• The expected value of the (net) benefits to the national and
regional economy will be maximised.
With as specific targets:
• To meet the demands for public water supply (population,
industry)
• To maintain a certain level of agricultural production
• To meet certain water quality standards.
While considering the impacts on:
• Socio-economic impacts (equity, income, etc.)
• Required budget
• Environmental conditions
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24. Objectives IWRM
Indonesia: self-sufficiency in food production +
…..
Egypt: economic development, social objectives
Bangladesh: food production and safety
Iran (Sistan): ease political/etnic tensions
South-Africa: IWRM should fight apartheid
Objective of IWRM is determined by situational
setting and (political) priority
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25. Criteria (or indicators)
Express (indicate) in how far a certain objective is
achieved
Are directly linked with objectives, e.g. (Egypt)
• objective: increase agriculture
> criteria:
– increase in irrigation area (ha)
– increase in production value ($)
– increase in cropping intensity (%)
• objective: stimulate employment, income, equity
> criteria:
– employment in agriculture
– average income farmers
– equity distribution
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26. Outcome Phase I - Inception
Work plan and decision making
Based on above a work plan should be made for the remainder of
the study, specifying the activities that will be carried out and the
process that will be followed to interact with the decision makers
and stakeholders.
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27. IWRM Planning Guidelines
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28. Phase II – Situation analysis
Step 1: Describe the current Water Resources System
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29. Phase II – Situation analysis
Step 2: Describe the future situation (scenario analyses)
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30. Phase II – Situation analysis
The need for a structured quantified situation
analysis process
Problem description
A problem analysis should be expressed as far as possible in
terms of the socio-economic and environmental impacts
that have meaning to the decision makers and stakeholders.
Integrated approach: Alignment with other plans
 Watershed Plans
 Flood Risk Management
 Integrated Coastal Zone Management
 etc.
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31. Phase II – Situation analysis
The need for a structured quantified situation
analysis process
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32. Modelling in framework of analysis
A supporting computational framework (models
and databases)
Typical elements of a computational framework are:
 determination of water demand (drinking water,
agriculture, etc.)
 determination of supply (rainfall, surface water,
groundwater)
 water balance and allocation models, balancing
supply and demand
 impact and (economic) evaluation models
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33. Example of structured problem identification
Problems should be expressed in socio-economic effects!
• decision makers (and most stakeholders) are not interested in
physical phenomena
Nat. system
phenomena
Causes Socio-econ.
effects
Potential
measures
Implications
shortage of
water
- uneven
rainfall
- increased
demand
econ. losses reservoirs -high costs
-hydropower
-envir. effects
pollution of
water
industrial
pig farming
-public health
-production
loss
-incr. treatment
-stimulate new
technology
-effluent
standards
-higher
industrial costs
-new
legislation
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34. Example metamodel
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Dashboard Jaluar river basin - Philippines

35. Outcome Phase II – Situation analysis
Agreement by stakeholders on the problem description and
promising measures based on the results of the previous
steps
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36. IWRM Planning Guidelines
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37. Phase III – Strategy building
The need for a structured strategy building process
A River Basin Plan
can only be
considered as a good
and implementable
plan if the proposed
measures have been
evaluated in terms of
how much these
measures will
improve the present
and future situation
after these measures
have been
implemented.
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38. Phase III - Strategy building
Step 1: Design alternative strategies based on
guiding principles addressing different
scenarios
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39. Impact assessment supported by data & models
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Step 2: Determination of full range of
impact of developed alternative WRD
strategies
• expressed in criteria as defined during
Inception phase

40. Scorecard
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41. Outcome Phase III – Strategy building
Decision on preferred strategy in consultation with stakeholders
based on evaluation of the results of the previous steps
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42. IWRM Planning Guidelines
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43. Phases IV-V Action plan & Implementation
What:
• concrete actions to be taken
Who:
• stakeholders involved and prime
responsible agency
How:
• steps to be taken – consultative
process
When:
• time plan
Financing:
• where is the money coming from
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44. Investment planning
Choice of:
• Governance mode & Funding strategy:
• Type of good: public, common, private, …
• Level of services: current and required over time…
• Financing strategy & Procurement strategy:
• (in-depth) projects to choose and engineer project delivery
and finance mechanism
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45. Example of Implementation card
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46. Outcome Phases IV-V Action plan & Implementation
Investment plan
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47. Final
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48. Questions?
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49. Thank you!
Questions or more information?
Judith.terMaat@deltares.nl
Laura.BascoCarrera@deltares.nl
Monica.Altamirano@deltares.nl
Eelco.vanBeek@deltares.nl
Tjitte.Nauta@deltares.nl
www.deltares.nl
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