Integrated River Basin Management through Decentralization by Karin Kemper, William Blomquist, Ariel Dinar
By Karin Kemper, William Blomquist, Ariel Dinar
Drawing upon a global survey of river basin corporations and in-depth reviews of 8 river basins in quite a few destinations around the world, this publication examines how institutional preparations for dealing with water assets on the river-basin point were designed and applied, what the impetus for those preparations has been, and what institutional positive factors seem to be linked to larger or lesser luck in river basin management.
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Two of the cases featured state companies, two involved central government agencies operating within nationally defined basin boundaries, and the other four were unique variations. Because integrated water resource management at the river basin level could involve a range of responsibilities and activities, it is not surprising that the cases studied differed in the functions they perform, including authority to allocate water to users; responsibility for water quality; setting and collecting water tariffs; and operation of physical infrastructure.
Economic, political and social differences among basin users. In many countries, the distribution of political influence will be a function of economic, religious, or other social and cultural distinctions, which will also affect stakeholder communication, trust, and willingness to cooperate. These distinctions cannot be made to disappear but decentralization will be more successful where their adverse effects can be minimized. All other things being equal, the greater and more contentious the economic, political, and social distinctions among basin users, the more difficult it will be to develop and sustain basin-scale institutional arrangements for governing and managing water resources.
Principal-agent relationships, including the transparency and enforcement possibilities in contractual agreements between the stakeholders to carry out certain functions. For the purposes of this analysis of decentralization of river basin management and its performance, these broad categories can be used to assemble a number of variables that might have some degree of influence on the process of decentralization. Empirical hypotheses have been formulated as to how each variable might contribute to the likelihood of successful or unsuccessful decentralization of river basin management.