AMERICAN WATER
RESOURCES ASSOCIATION /
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE
INTERNATIONAL SPECIALTY CONFERENCE
"GLOBALIZATION AND WATER MANAGEMENT: THE CHANGING VALUE OF WATER"
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West Park Centre, Dundee, Scotland , August 6-8, 2001
Opening Plenary Sessions Session 1-Formulating Water Policy During Rapid Globilization | Session 2-Innovative Legal Frameworks: Responding to Change | Session 3-Environmental Valuations of Water Ecosystem Functions and Values | Session 4-Evolving Water Management Strategies in Developing Countries-I | Session 5-International and Comparative Water Law: Current Issues | Session 6-Valuing Water in Urban and Rural Settings | Session 7-Using in formation Technology to Support Water Management | Session 8-The Role of Science in a Globilizing World: Integrating Science in to Water Management | Session 9-The Role of Civil Society in Water Management-I | Session 10-Valuing Water for Agriculture and the Environment
Conference Plenary Session - HELP | Session 11-Challenges in Transboundary Water Management | Session 12-Water Management in Transitional Economies (Central Asia) | Session 13-Evolving Management of Utilities | Session 14-Challenges in Transboundary River Basin Management | Session 15-Evolving Water Management Strategies in Developing Countries-II |Session 16- Water Utilities in a Global Economy: Recent Experience with Privatization | Session 17-Seeking Collaboration, Cooperation, and Partnerships | Session 18-Role of Civil Society in Water Management-II | Session 19-Changing Water Law Regimes | Session 20-The Political Economy of Water Ownership and Control | Sessions 21 & 22-Workshop-The Essentials of Private Sector Participation | Session 23-Reform and Social Accounting in Water Management | Session 24-Comparison of Selected National Water Laws | Session 25- Lessons Learned for Water Management |Closing Plenary Session-Summary Reports and Recommendations
Dr. John S. Grounds III, President, American Water Resources Association, Brown and Gay Engineers, Inc., Houston, Texas, USA
Dr. Patricia K. Wouters, Conference Organizing Committee Co-Chair Director, International Water Law Research Institute (IWLRI), Department of Law, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Dr. David W. Moody, Conference Organizing Committee Co-Chair Inter-American Water Resources Network (IWRN), Organization of American States (OAS),Washington, DC, USA
“Welcome on Behalf of the University of Dundee,” Ms. Fiona Raitt, Head of Department of Law, University of Dundee , Dundee, Scotland, UK
“Developing a Sustainable Water Industry in a Competitive Environment,” Dr. Jon Hargreaves, Chief Executive, East of Scotland Water, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
“From Here to Where? – Managing Water in a Sustainable Way,” Professor Michael Hamlin, CBE, FREng, FICE, Hon. LLD (Dundee), Hon. Deg. Eng. (Birmingham), Former Principal and Vice Chancellor University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
SESSION 1 -- FORMULATING WATER POLICY DURING RAPID GLOBALIZATION
Global Public Policy Arena – The World Commission on Dams - Jeremy Bird, World Commission on Dams Secretariat, Cape Town, South Africa
Globalization and Water Management in Developing Arid Countries – Walid A. Abderrahman, Manager, Water Section, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Water: A Basic Human Right – the Debate is Not Over - Robyn Stein, Mandela Institute, School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (co-author: P. Bond)
SESSION 2 --INNOVATIVE LEGAL FRAMEWORKS: RESPONDING TO CHANGE
Conflicts Between Sectorial and Transboundary Water Users: Cause, Prevention, and Dispute Settlement - Branko Bosnajkovic, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva, Switzerland
Tradable Water in GATT/WTO Law: Need for New Legal Frameworks? – Katsumi Matsuoka, Department of Law and Business, Fuji University, Iwate, Japan
Adaptive Management: How Water Laws Need to Change – Janet C. Neuman, Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA
SESSION 3--ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATIONS OF WATER ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS AND VALUES
Comparing Ecosystem Restoration Approaches: The Baltic Sea and Upper Mississippi River - Bruce D. Carlson, Institute of Water Resources, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
The Value of Freshwater Wetlands in the Zambezi Basin - Ismail Seyam, International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands (co-authors: A.Y. Hoekstra, G.S. Ngabirano, H.G. Savenije)
Ord River Allocation Planning – Environmental Valuations Past, Present and Future - Russell King, Water and Rivers Commission, East Perth, Western Australia, Australia (co-author: Kerry Trayler)
SESSION 4--EVOLVING WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES-I
Conflict and Co-operation Over Fresh Water: International and National Dimension – Albert Mumma, Center for Environmental Policy and Law in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
The Impact of Globalization on Water Management in Small Island States: The Case of Jamaica - Belal Ahmed, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies
Water Resource Management in the Southern Africa Region - Francisco Alvaro, Direcção Nacional de Águas, Maputo, Mozambique (co-authors: Custodio Vicente, Adriano Nhamona)
SESSION 5--INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE WATER LAW: CURRENT ISSUES
Globalisation, International Watercourses and the Sources of International Law – Alistair Rieu-Clarke, IWLRI, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
The United States Supreme Court and the Concept of “Equitable” Apportionment: A Century of Experience - George W. Sherk, School of Engineering and Applied Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
New Thinking in Regional International Water Laws? - Paulo Jorge Canelas de Castro, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (co-authors: Cheryl D. Feigum, Jerry Bennett)
SESSION 6--VALUING WATER IN URBAN AND RURAL SETTINGS
Drawers of Water II: 30 years of Changes in Domestic Water Use in East Africa – Ina Tatiana Porras, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, England, UK (coauthor: John Thompson)
Water Market Participation and Effective Water Prices in Jordan - Maria Iskandarani, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn, Germany
Valuing Water in Rural Puerto Rico - H.A. Minnigh, RHI, Northeast RCAP, Lajas, Puerto Rico, USA (co-author: Graciela I. Ramirez Toro)
SESSION 7--USING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT WATER MANAGEMENT
Helping Internet Users Find Water Information - Kenneth J. Lanfear, Gateway to the Earth Program Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, USA
Narrowing the Digital Divide: Creating Opportunities for Water Resource Management in the Information Age - U. Sunday Tim, Department of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Water Conservation Using Satellite Technology for Irrigation Scheduling – William J. Carlos, Nevada Cooperative Extension, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA (co-authors: W.W. Miller (NAES), D.A. Devitt (NCS/NAES), G.C.J. Fernandez (NAES))
SESSION 8--THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN
A GLOBALIZING WORLD:
INTEGRATING SCIENCE INTO WATER MANAGEMENT
What Science Can Contribute for Future Cooperation in the Middle East: The Jordan River – Avner Vengosh, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel (co-authors: Efrat Farber, Uri Shavit, Ran Holtzman, Michal Segal, Ittai Gavrieli, Tom Bullen, Bernhard Mayer)
Competing, Complimentary, and/or Replacement Strategies for Watershed Restoration in the Klamath River Basin, USA – Robert A. Gearheart, Department of Engineering, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, USA (co-author: Brad Finney)
Impacts Assessment Toolbox for Water Resources and Environmental Impacts of Global Climate Change – Nigel W. T. Quinn, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA (co-author: Meri M. Miles)
SESSION 9--THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN WATER MANAGEMENT-I
Democratising Down Under - Maria Comino, Healthy Rivers Commission, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Transition to Alternative Sources of Water Supply in East Central Florida (USA) – Ometrias D. Long, St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida, USA
Scotland’s Water – Open for Business? – Sarah Hendry, University of Abertay-Dundee, PhD Candidate, Department of Law, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
SESSION 10--VALUING WATER FOR AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Dollars and Sense: Water Allocation Decision-Making, Tropical Western Australia - Russell King, Water and Rivers Commission, East Perth, Western Australia, Australia (co-authors: Ian Loh, Simon Rodgers)
Valuing Water for Agriculture: Application to the Zambezi Basin Countries - J. I. Agudelo, International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (IHE), Delft, The Netherlands (co-author: Arjen Y. Hoekstra)
Costs and Benefits of Instream Flows in an International Basin Frank A. Ward, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA (co-author: James F. Booker)
CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSION --HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT, LIFE, AND POLICY (HELP) PROGRAMME
The Help Programme: Overview-Mike Bonell, International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France
Interdisciplinary Research: Problems and Issues for HELP Basins-James Wallace, Centre for Environment and Hydrology, Wallingford, Oxon, England, UK
Effective Water Resources Management: Operationalizing Interdisciplinarity: The Case for Law- Patricia K. Wouters, International Water Law Research Institute, Department of Law University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Legal Regulation and Integrated Water Resources Management: Questions for Scientists-Sergei Vinogradov. University of Dundee.Dundee, Scotland, UK
Practical Issues of Hydrology for the Environment, Life and Policy: Examples from the Thukela Basin in South Africa-Valerie Taylor and Roland Schultze, School of Bio Resources Engineering and Environmental Hydrology University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Managing International Waters: Implementing an Integrated Approach in a HELP Basin – The Aral Sea Basin– Victor Dukhovny and Vadim Sokolov. Scientific Information Centre, Interstate Water Commission. Tashkent, Uzbekistan
SESSION 11--CHALLENGES IN TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT
Water Security from Middle East to Central Asia: The Road From Conflict to Co-operation in a Changing World - Daphne Biliouri, Independent Environmental Policy Consultant, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK
Managing International Waters: The Challenge for Zambia - Andrew Mondoka, Water Board of Zambia, Zambia
Operationalising Equitable and Reasonable Utilisation: Practice on the Columbia River - Patricia A. Jones, PhD Candidate, Department of Law, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
SESSION 12--WATER MANAGEMENT IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES (CENTRAL ASIA)
New Riparian Central Asia’s States vis-à-vis International Water Law - Vadim Sokolov, Scientific Information Centre, Interstate Water Commission, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Institutional Environment and Water Reform Advancement in Transitional Economies: Azerbaijan Case Study - Ibraghim Mamedzadeh, ASPI Consulting Engineers Inc., Baku, Azerbaijan
Water Problems in Moslem Central Asia - Igor Hadjamberdiev, Institute of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
SESSION 13--EVOLVING MANAGEMENT OF UTILITIES
Taking by Incumbents in a Competitive Water Industry - Gordon Downie, Shepherd & Wedderburn WS, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
A Risk Management Strategy for a Water Distribution Network - Patrick A. Crocket, Kaverner Oil & Gas Limited, Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK
Water Law and the Liberalized European Thermal Energy Market - Melvin Woodhouse, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
SESSION 14--CHALLENGES IN TRANSBOUNDARY RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT
Globalization, Sovereignty, and Transboundary River Basin Cooperation in Central Europe - Valerie J. Assetto, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
The Hudson Bay Drainage System: Conflicts and Cooperation in Transboundary Water Quantity and Quality, A Continuing Saga - W.H.N. Paton, Botany and Biology Department, Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Multi-Criteria Decision Tool for Allocating the Waters of the Jordan Basin Between All Riparian Parties - Bassam I. Sawalhi, Civil Engineering Department, Birzeit University, Palestine (co-author: Ziad A. Mimi)
SESSION 15--EVOLVING WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES–II
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - Prospective of Changes in Water Management System - Slavko Bogdanovic, Novi Sad, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Historical Overview and Current Trends in Istanbul’s Water Supply Development – Anya Butt, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey (co-author: Ali Demirci)
Legal Aspects of Interstate Cooperation for Transboundary Water Resources Management in the Aral Sea Basin –Bakhtiyor R. Mukhamadiev, Scientific Information Center, Interstate Water Commission, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
SESSION 16--WATER UTILITIES IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY: RECENT EXPERIENCES WITH PRIVATIZATION
Privatisations in Eastern Europe: Lessons for the West? – Falko Josef Sellner, International Legal Counsel, Solihull, England, UK, and Christian Leyroutz, Legal Counsel for Private Sector Participation in the Germanic Western Europe, Villach, Austria
Deregulation in Water Management – Cross-Country Comparison and Lessons Learned from the Electricity Sector – Dieter Rothenberger, Limnological Research Center, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland (co-authors: Jochen Markard, Bernhard Truffer)
The Water Distributor-Client Relationship: A Revolution in Water Management – Loïc Fauchon, Société des Eaux de Marseille, Marseille, France
SESSION 17--SEEKING COLLABORATION, COOPERATION, AND PARTNERSHIPS
Designing Cooperative Programs to Resolve Water Resource Conflicts – Christine D. Karas, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Societal Participation in Water Management: The Egyptian SFD’s Approach – M. Mokhles Abou-Seida, General Public Works Program, Social Fund for Development, Cairo, Giza, Egypt
Bridging the Gap: A Model for Building Trust and Collaboration Between Marine Resource Regulators and Stakeholders – Mimi Larsen Becker and John R. Coon, Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA
SESSION 18--ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN WATER MANAGEMENT–II
One Resource, Two Visions: The Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Water Cooperation - Erika Weinthal, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (co-author: Amer Marei)
Watershed Councils Along the US-Mexico Border: The San Pedro Basin – Robert G. Varady, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA co-authors: Anne Browning-Aiken, Margaret Ann Moote)
An International Watershed Management Council in the Mexican North Border - Patricia Herrera Ascencio, Mexican Institute of Water Technology (IMTA), Morelos, Mexico (co-author: Jaqueline LaFragua Contreras)
SESSION 19--CHANGING WATER LAW REGIMES
Dams and Global Climate Change: Implications for International Water Law - A. Dan Tarlock, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Rules and Tools on Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses - Mohamed Asheesh, Institute of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland
Consensus or Court? Examining Australian and US Legal Water Regimes - M. David Coffman, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
SESSION 20--THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF WATER OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL
Privatising Water in England and Wales: Evolving Approaches to Equity in Water Pricing - Karen Bakker, Oxford Centre for Water Research, Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK
Private to Public - International Lessons of Water Remunicipalisation in Grenoble, France - David Hall and Emanuele Lobina, Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich, London, England, UK
Specific Legal Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada in Relation to the Commodification of Water - Merrell-Ann S. Phare, Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Meanderings Among Myths of Water Resources –Dr. Charles Welby, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. USA
Organized By
Jeffrey Delmon, Allen & Overy, London, England, UK
Cledan Mandri-Perrott, P.A. Consulting Group, Birmingham, England, UK
Falko Josef Sellner, International Legal Counsel, Solihull, England, UK
SESSION 23--REFORM AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTING IN WATER MANAGEMENT
Embedding Social Capital in the Construction of Water Markets - May Isaac, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
The European Water Framework Directive: A New Regional Model for the Application of Economic Measures - Ranji Dhillon, International Water Law Research Institute, Department of Law, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Environmental Conditions and the Cost of Municipal Water Supply - Steven Renzetti, Department of Economics, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
SESSION 24--COMPARISON OF SELECTED NATIONAL WATER LAWS
The Role of International Law in Resolving Israeli/Palestinian Water Conflict –Fadia Daibes Murad, LLM Candidate, University of Dundee, and Palestinian Water Authority, East Jerusalem
Australian Water Reform Process in the Last Five Years: Legal Issues and Emerging Legal Issues - Jennifer McKay, Water Policy and Law Group, School of International Business, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Trading Water, Trading Places: Water Marketing in Chile and the Western United States –Joe Mentor, Jr., Mentor Law Group, PLLC, Seattle, Washington, USA
SESSION 25--LESSONS LEARNED FOR WATER MANAGEMENT
The Myth of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Sustainable Water Resources Management - Nigel Watson, Department of Geography, Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK
Integrating Ecological, Socieoeconomic and Water Resources Issues Through Rule-Based Frameworks - Kent W. Thornton, FTN Associates Limited, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Learning From Fifty Years of United States Water Pollution Legislation - Kenneth M. Murchison, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION --SUMMARY REPORTS, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: SETTING THE FUTURE AGENDA
Guest Panelists
Walid A. Abderahman, King Fahd University, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Faye Anderson (Moderator), American Water Resources Association, Middleburg, Virginia, USA
Jeremy Bird, World Commission on Dams Secretariat, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Mike Bonell, International Hydrological Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France
Jeffrey Delmon, Jeffrey Delmon, Allen & Overy, London, England, UK
David W. Moody, Inter-American Water Resources Network (IWRN), Organization of American States (OAS),Washington, D.C., USA
Patricia K. Wouters, Director, International Water Law Research Institute (IWLRI), Department of Law, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK