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History
Literature
Data
History
Literature
Data
1. The Basin
$3.2B
~6000 mi2
500,000 acres
WATERSUPPLY
Recreation
Fish & Wildlife
NavigationIndustry
Irrigation
Domestic/Municipal
1880s: 300,000 -960,000/yearNow: threespecies gone
1902: 120,000acres irrigatedNow: 500,000acres irrigated
197619791987198819921993199420012003200420052010
2. The Integrated Plan
History
Literature
Data
Fish Passage
Fish Habitat Enhancement
Modification of Existing Structures and Operations
Surface Storage
Market-Based Reallocation
Groundwater Storage
Enhanced Water Conservation
3. Previous watershed planning
History
Literature
Data
4. Successful watershed partnerships
History
Literature
Data
(Kenney 2000)
(Conley and Moote 2003)
•Organizationalimplementational
•Act as convening spaces for negotiations; the member agencies carry out the “formal legal actions”
Leach and Pelkey (2001)
5. Findings from qualitative data
History
Literature
Data
1. Design a semi-structured interview
2. Identify and contact stakeholders
3. Conduct, transcribe, and code interviews
4. Supplement with documents
Key Findings1: Local groups united on their shared values
2: State and federal leaders
pushed initiative forward
3: Workgroup committed to a
balanced approach
1: Local groups united on their shared values
You know, we've fought tooth and nail with Roza Irrigation District in our long history. We don't have a friendly relationship with them, prior to this. We came together and we both agreed, we can't go forward with that proposal called Black Rock.
[Our joint letter to Reclamation and Ecology] was co-signed, and that shocked the valley. […] That was a game-changer, I guess is how they call it around here.
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YAKAMA:
1: Local groups united on their shared values
[We realized] that our interests were more similar than different. Together, we could convey an awful lot of power.
ROZA:
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1: Local groups united on their shared values
Sense of urgency; Frustration over lack of progress
Shared preference for a better alternative to Storage study
Recognition of power in collaboration
2: State and federal leaders pushed initiative forward
We got leadership at Reclamation and leadership at Ecology to agree with us, and that's when things started to rapidly change.ROZA:
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2: State and federal leaders pushed initiative forward
We had the right political leadership. They all supported moving forward on what we called the integrated approach to solving these problems.
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”ECOLOGY:
2: State and federal leaders pushed initiative forward
everybody at that point was a lot more comfortable in talking about the ultimate solutions
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”RECLAMATION:
2: State and federal leaders pushed initiative forward
Responded to local concerns
Adjudication reduced conflict
“Water, Jobs and Fish Bill” enacted
3: Workgroup committed to a balanced approach
They're getting enough out of the plan“
”Friends of Bumping Lake
3: Workgroup committed to a balanced approach
We're not putting one interest in front of the other.
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”KITTITAS COUNTY:
3: Workgroup committed to a balanced approach
Everyone was willing to compromise
Workgroup was consciously designed
Local, Yakama, Irrigators
Together
Federal, State
6. Discussion
History
Literature
Data
•Actionable:
•Context/Luck:
power imbalances
relationships across and within stakeholder groups over time.
lack of money can haltcontext
matters
power imbalances
relationships across and within stakeholder groups over time.
lack of money can haltcontext
matters•Can an IWRM framework be a cure-all?