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The Promise and Challenge of Water Security in a Changing World
John Briscoe
Johns Hopkins University,
March 2013
(and how great universities can engage)
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My remarks
1. Some basic facts (and perceptions)
2. What do we mean by water security and what can be done to increase security?
3. How can a great university engage?
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• 89% of people have access to an “improved source”
• Population has increased by 217,000 every day over the last 20 years
• 281,000 additional people got access every day over last 20 years
96% have access
81% have access
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Main
driver?
The
dramatic
decline in
global
poverty
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Water Resources Management
Water supply & sanitation
Irrigation & drainage
Energy
Environ- mental
services
Infrastructure for management of
floods and droughts, multipurpose storage,
water quality and source protection
Institutional framework
Management instruments
Political economy of water management
Other uses including
industry and navigation
Source: Global Water Partnership
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National Security (2012)
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Business Leaders
(WEF 2012)
Likelihood
Impact
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Citizens (Source, Globescan 2013)
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Bottom line on where we are
• Still work to be done on drinking water (and more on sanitation), but remarkable and continuing progress
….but • The issue that keeps far-sighted leaders awake at
night has to do with: – How to construct and maintain the “water platform”
for economic growth – How to ensure “water security” in the face of large
and growing variability – How to sustain the resource base.
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My remarks
1. Some basic facts (and perceptions)
2. What do we mean by water security and what do societies do to increase security?
3. How can a great university engage?
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Probability of flow
Flow
Type B risks: Probability of
floods
Type A risks: Probability of
droughts
Societies face two types of water risk…
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Some parts of the world have benign hydrology and others malign hydrology…
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Rainfall Variability and GDP
Mean Annual Rainfall (cm)
Monthly Rainfall Variability (coefficient of variation)
Bubble Size = GDP per capita
(Blue = low interannual variability of rainfall)
Source: Brown and Lall 2007
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Rainfall Variability and GDP
Mean Annual Rainfall
Monthly Rainfall Variability
Bubble Size = GDP per capita
(Blue = low interannual variability of rainfall)
Wealthy nations share a small
window of favorable climate
(low variability; moderate rainfall)
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Rainfall Variability and GDP
Mean Annual Rainfall
Monthly Rainfall Variability
Bubble Size = GDP per capita
(Blue = low interannual variability of rainfall)
Developing countries face more
challenging climate conditions High variability
High mean
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Level of Risk Level of
Development
Link 1: Risk affects development
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How countries depended on “benign hydrology” to develop: 19th century New England
An easily-mobilizable “water platform” (for energy, transport, factories and people)
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Secure, low-cost navigation
changed the history of the US
(and Europe)
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But the quest for water security is a two-way street
Link 2: Development affects risk
Level of Risk Level of
Development
Link 1: Risk affects development
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A country with a
growing economy
could invest to make parts with malign hydrology
productive….
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But what about poor countries, many of which face benign hydrology?
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Hydropower in different regions
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Poor countries want to do what the rich did, and build infrastructure for security and water-enabled growth
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Developing countries, with shallow domestic capital markets need help to finance their water infrastructure …
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• Historically the World Bank, the US and other rich countries helped, but…
• Rich people who have a lot of dams (remember 1000 days of storage on Colorado?) don’t like dams any more…
• And oppose dams even in quite different circumstances (e.g. Pakistan which has 30 days of storage on the Indus…)
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World Bank lending for hydropower in US$ millions
..rich countries have a lot of say at aid institutions like the World Bank…
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But the world is changing..
The Middle Income Countries (India, Brazil and especially China) are filling the gap left by rich countries who used to help….
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Whereas the World Bank now finances about 5 dams, the Chinese finance over 300 outside of China in the
developing world
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What societies do to reduce risk ….
Infrastructure Institutions
Some examples from the countries where the Harvard Water Security Initiative works
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1. By reducing vulnerability to drought
INSTITUTIONS affect water security
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In the 1980s – unrelated to climate change – Australia made major economic reforms, including in the water
sector
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Water trading in the MDB
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Trading price soared from 10 to 80 cents a cubic meter.
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The water trading system means that water moves – from willing sellers to willing buyers -- from low-value to high-value crops…
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The water trading system means that water moves – from willing sellers to willing buyers -- from low-value to high-value crops…
National Water Commission 2010. The impacts of water trading in the Southern Murray Darling Basin. Data for Murrumbidgee
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The water trading system means that water moves – from willing sellers to willing buyers -- from low-value to high-value crops…
National Water Commission 2010. The impacts of water trading in the Southern Murray Darling Basin. Data for Murrumbidgee
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Little impact on GVA in agriculture
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But water management is a dialectic process….
“the state of art (of water management) is always provisional…”
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Re-balancing human
uses and
environmental needs
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Because water has become so valuable and there are strong incentives for
efficient allocation and use….
A massive “pull” for new knowledge and technologies
• For short- and long-term prediction
• For risk-based decision-support systems
• For ecologic knowledge
• For precision water application technologies
• Strong partnerships with universities
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1. By reducing vulnerability to drought
2. By reducing vulnerability to floods
INSTITUTIONS affect water security
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The Mississippi River
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The historic 1927 flood
Anarchic management
and terrible economic
and social devastation
The main lesson:
► In a major flood the river
can not be constrained
by levees
► Have to “make room for
the river” A broad participatory
process
Designates floodwaters
and backwater areas
Compensation
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BUILDING STRONG®
The
Mississippi
Rivers and
Tributaries
Program:
Build levies
but also
Planned
Floodways
and
Backwater
Areas
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BUILDING STRONG®
The great test of 2011: Peak flows (cusecs) similar to 1927
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BUILDING STRONG®
Flooded
Areas 1927 Flood
vs
2011 Flood
• “Extra” water on
designated backwaters
and floodways
• Process orderly and
consensual
• Flooded area 60% less
in 2011
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But water management is a dialectic process….
“the state of art (of water management) is always provisional…”
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BUILDING STRONG®
Aging Water Resources Infrastructure
• Half of Locks 50+ Years Old
• Average Age 62 Years Old
Crumbling lock wall, Lower
Monongahela L&D 3, opened 1907
Concrete
deterioration at
Chickamauga
Lock and Dam
Project, Tenn.
Leaking
Miter Gates,
Upper Miss
Lock 19
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BUILDING STRONG®
Inland Waterway Navigation System
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The Mississippi faces great challenges
1. Maintaining the infrastructure
Acceptable Risk
Cost
Low
High Low
High
If the Federal Government pays…..
If affected people pay
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1. Maintaining the infrastructure
2. Maintaining the coastal zone
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1. Maintaining the infrastructure
2. Maintaining the coastal zone
3. Hypoxia in the gulf
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1. Exogenous “natural” threats
Not all threats are from “within”
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Climate Change:
What happens in the Himalayas obviously
hugely important for Pakistan
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Glacial+snow melt
in river flow %
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On the one hand….
• Section 10.6.2 states, “the
likelihood of [the Himalayan
Glaciers] disappearing by
the year 2035 and perhaps
sooner is very high if the
Earth keeps warming at the
current rate.
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On the other hand, recent GRACE estimates….
The high mountains of Asia show a mass loss of only 4 ± 20 Gt yr−1 for 2003–2010, compared with 47–55 Gt yr−1 in previously published estimates
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BOTTOM LINE: A huge need
• For disinterested science
• For a focus on managing variability more
effectively:
– starting with “known variability” and
– employing both infrastructure and institutions
to enhance robustness
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• Glacial retreat is unlikely to cause significant changes in water availability over the next several decades
• Other factors, including groundwater depletion and increasing human water use could have a greater impact
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1. Exogenous “natural” threats
2. Exogenous “human-driven” threats
Not all threats are from “within”
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I n d i a
P a k i s t a n
Growing disputes….
Salal 700 mw
Sawal Kot 1200 mw
Baglihar 450 (+ 450) mw
Dul Haste 390 (+ 390) mw
Bursar 1000 mw
Pakuldul 1000 mw
Complete
Under construction
In planning
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After Wolf
…260 “river” basins shared by 2+ nations
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…the specter of water wars, between countries….
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The overlap between water scarcity and the RNSSC members…
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Some ways in which to conceptualize the challenge of risk management
1. What level of risk does a society want to face?
2. How to make sure that actions to deal with risk are Pareto efficient?
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What risk does a society want to face?
Risk
Low
High
High Low
Cost
A poor country
A rich country
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A nice example of the emerging switch to a risk management approach
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Combining different assets into portfolios can reduce risk.
Standard Deviation of a Two-Asset Portfolio
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Risk of Asset A
adjusted for weight
in the portfolio
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adjusted for weight
in the portfolio
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the correlation among the
assets.
Source: Kidson et al. 2009
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If surface supplies from reservoirs are the backbone of most urban water supplies, what are the promising
(and not promising) additions to a portfolio?
• Low reliability and positively correlated and therefore not promising: – Rainwater harvesting – Roof catchments
• High reliability and not correlated and therefore promising: – Desalination – Wastewater re-use
• Moderate reliability and negatively correlated and therefore very promising: – Purchases from farmers (who are willing to release water
when prices are high, in droughts)
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My remarks
1. Some basic facts (and perceptions)
2. What do we mean by water security and what do societies do to increase security?
3. How can a great university engage?
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What can a great university bring to the table on water security
• Broad, integrating knowledge
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“ We have
– God-like technologies
– Medieval institutions
– Paleolithic emotions…”
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An example of Harvard in practice: The Water Security Initiative/Harvard Law
School Water Federalism Project
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• 5 “basin teams” of 6 students each
• Range of disciplines:
– Lawyers, Engineers, Chemists, Epidemiologists, Economists, Policy majors, Biologists
• Range of levels:
– College to post-doc
• Worked with “thinking practitioners” in the basins…
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The products? • A common framework for examining challenges and
responses (both hard and soft) • Documenting experience and insights of “thinking
practitioners” • Sharing lessons: What, for example, can the Indus
River System Authority learn: • About managing scarcity from Australia? • About managing excess from the Mississippi? • About managing conflict from the Sao Francisco?
• Creating a new generation of “specialized integrators” • The set of student papers to be published as a special
edition of Water Policy • 18 of the 30 students engaged are doing theses (in
engineering, law, economic, policy, public health) on water
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With Australia • A strong partnership with the University of Melbourne, the
National Water Commission and Murray Darling Basin Authority • Students and post-docs working on:
– The Federalism Project – The “Australian Water Project” on the next generation of reforms
(with Committee for Economic Development of Australia) – A comparative study of how environmental flows are managed in the
Murray Darling and Colorado river basins (with the MDBA) – How the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder can manage a
portfolio of water assets (leases and purchases) – The role of wastewater re-use as an option for cities – A portfolio management approach to risk mitigation in Melbourne – Impacts of water trading on third parties and consequences for policy
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With the Mississippi River Commission
• Students working on:
– The Water Federalism Project
– Study tour by Harvard and University of Sao Paulo engineering undergrads
– Using the hydraulic and GIS tools developed in the Mississippi for the Indus
– Exploring a new risk/cost equilibrium in the Mississippi in an era of fiscal constraints
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With Pakistan
• Students working on: – The Water Federalism Project
– The historial evolution of legal instruments for managing water
– The application of a modern conflict resolution framework to the Indus Water Accord
– Using the hydraulic and GIS tools developed in the Mississippi for the Indus
– A portfolio management approach for risk management in Lahore
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With Brazil
• Students working on: – A joint project with the Biology Department and
the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro using linked climate change and vegetation models. Examining the impact of climate change and deforestation on precipitation and streamflow and therefore on the planning and operation of hydropower in the Parana and Tapajos basins
– How an interbasin transfer can enhance water security in Ceara
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Planning a similar – multi-student, multi-discipline – project with the HBS on “the business of water”
• How do businesses mitigate water risk?
• How can governments use businesses to help improve legal, regulatory and management capacity?
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Overall
• An integrated approach to water is a challenge to universities organized in disciplinary silos….
• Great cooperation from agencies who are grappling with these issues
• Enormous interest from students at all levels
• A great opportunity….
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