CAPIM/PIRE Update David Feldman (UCI) Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP) CAPIM/PIRE UpdateDr. David Feldman (UCI) January 25, 2014 PIRE RetreatDr. Ashmita Sengupta

CAPIM/PIRE Update

David Feldman (UCI)Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)

CAPIM/PIRE Update Dr. David Feldman (UCI) January 25, 2014

PIRE Retreat Dr. Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP)Slide #1

Integrated Water

Resources Management

Transitioning to Integrated Water Resource Management (IRWM) from Traditional Practices



•Driven by need to develop holistic approach to sustainably manage diverse water resource issues.•Focus on community learning and place-based solutions.•Innovative, integrated resource frameworks that capture social, economic, as well as environmental elements.•Highly applicable to semi-arid climates.

PIRE-CAPIM Collaboration

• Center for Aquatic Pollution Identification and Management: based at University of Melbourne

• New technologies to improve monitoring, identify priority pollutants, detect sources of major pollutants and assist in management of pollution issues

• Experience with reclaimed water offset scheme- saved Melbourne Water $80 M (Upper Dandenong Project)

UCI



CAPIM’s Study Area: Jacksons Creek Catchment



Jacksons Creek Catchment: Site of Interest



Australian Smart Water Fund for Water Quality Offsets Framework

• Australian Smart Water Fund issued a bid for funding an IWRM Framework based on Jacksons Creek Experiment

• Key stakeholders – Victorian Water Industry, regional partners, EPA, DEPI, OLV, CAPIM, Local Government)

• PIRE partnered with CAPIM to respond to RFP



Source: Smart Water Fund RPF

NSF PIRE-CAPIM Project Goal

Conduct integrated assessment of environmental, social, and economic components of water management strategies in Jacksons Creek Watershed as a foundation for understanding use of environmental offsets on a broader scale.

Key Questions:1) What are the social and environmental impacts of the current offset scenarios

in Jacksons Creek?2) What are optimal strategies for achieving net positive societal, economic, and environmental benefits in the watershed (and what are their lessons)?3) What are impediments/opportunities to applying such strategies to other locations (e.g. Southern California)?



Phase 1Develop a conceptual framework

Watershed/water quality model to evaluate trade offs

Social/political Evaluation

Economic Evaluation

Decision Tree Analysis

Optimal Strategies

Phase 2 Explore Scenarios

Watershed/water quality model

Social/political Evaluation

Economic Evaluation

Decision Tree Analysis

Optimal Strategies

Phase 3 Expand framework based on scenario analysis

Apply to other sites (Australia and Southern California)

Benefits/Impediments

Conceptual Framework (under construction)



Reuse

Indicator and acceptable tradeoffs

Human Health Benthic/Eutro-phication

Design offset decisions, other management

decisionsClimate change

Changes in human perception, attitudes,

and behavior

Water Management

Demographic changes, economic activities,

Land use

Impacts (social, and economic)

Recycle Reduce

Ecological Responses

Micropollutant Toxicity

Options for Capturing Value

• Standard, contingent value approach• Limited in terms of value capture

Traditional Willingness to Pay

• Designed to capture intrinsic value of cultural, historic, and ecological assets

• Community generated list of assets produces ranked list of preferences

Place-based, Intrinsic Value

• Workshop participants engage in WTP exercise based on interactive, game theoretic model

• Consequences to WTP decisions are immediate

Interactive, Game Theory



Typology for Public Participation in Integrated Assessments

Mapping Out Diversity

Reaching Consensus

Process as a goal

Process as a

Means

Participatory Modelling

Focus Groups Scenario

Analysis

Policy Exercises

Scientists-stakeholder workshop

Participatory Planning

Consensus Conference

Citizen’s Juries

Source: van Asselt Marjolein & Rijkens-Klomp (2002)



Timeline and Products

• Develop conceptual framework and identify framework assessment indicators

• Conduct interviews• Compile existing data• Assessment of biological impact of Jacksons Creek offsets• Develop watershed/water quality model for Jacksons

Creek• Perform decision tree analyses

• Incorporate climate change modeling• Explore scenarios• Focus group interviews to assess options• Continue decision tree analyses

• Apply framework to other test cases (Southern California)

• Publications• Conference

presentations• User workshop• Integrated

Assessment Framework

Year 1

Year 2

Years 3, 4



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Identification of Potential Stressors

Endpoints Measured Key Outcomes

Water Chemistry Nutrients, Pesticides, Estrogenicity

Identify potential stressors

Discharge Water Nutrients, Pesticides, Estrogenicity


Sediment Chemistry Nutrients, Hydrocarbons,Pesticides


Toxicity Algal InhibitionMacroinvertebrate Impairment

Identify if pollutants are negatively impacting the flora and fauna

Faunal Alteration Macroinvertebrate ImpairmentFish Impairment

Identify the condition of fauna

Endocrine Disruption Macroinvertebrate ImpairmentFish Impairment

Identify if endocrine disrupting chemicals are affecting faunal condition


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CAPIM/PIRE Update David Feldman (UCI) Ashmita Sengupta (SCCWRP) CAPIM/PIRE UpdateDr. David Feldman (UCI) January 25, 2014 PIRE RetreatDr. Ashmita Sengupta