Can water management policies take both large-scale and local management strategies into account?
Local strategies can complement wider-reaching water management approaches. There are local strategies that can be scaled up, such as shared water storage among neighbourhoods. In some cases, local strategies can offer cheaper and more effective alternatives to the large-scale, centralized, capital-heavy approaches that have dominated in the past and that too often failed to deliver on their promises. This is where its exciting to combine modern hydrological models with traditional knowledge and figure out how you can put the two together. Its not management science but it takes a lot of innovative thinking to come up with good policies. What are some mistaken assumptions about local water management? One faulty and dangerous assumption has been that you dont need to pay attention to local views and traditional management. Even if some traditional methods in developing countries are no longer effective because of changing circumstances, its very important to understand the theory behin
