Operationalizing Water Security Concept in Water Investment Planning: Case Study of S&atilde;o Francisco River Basin

Teixeira, Alexandre Lima de F.; Bhaduri, Anik; Bunn, Stuart E.; Ayrimoraes, Sérgio R.

doi:10.3390/w13243658

Submit to this Journal Review for this Journal Edit a Special Issue

Article Menu

...

Open AccessFeature PaperArticle

Operationalizing Water Security Concept in Water Investment Planning: Case Study of São Francisco River Basin

Alexandre Lima de F. Teixeira

^1,2,*

Anik Bhaduri

Stuart E. Bunn

and

Sérgio R. Ayrimoraes

Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD 4111, Australia

Brazilian National Water and Sanitation Agency, Setor Policial Sul, Área 5, Quadra 3, Brasília 70610-200, Brazil

Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Academic Editor: Brian Richter

Water 2021, 13(24), 3658; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243658

Received: 15 November 2021 / Revised: 12 December 2021 / Accepted: 16 December 2021 / Published: 20 December 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Water Scarcity and Conservation)

View Full-Text Download PDF

Browse Figures

Citation Export

Abstract

Despite advances in water resources management and planning, the São Francisco River Basin in Brazil has suffered from systematic drought problems in recent years, leading to severe human and environmental water security threats. This paper aims to track the water security for different periods and its relations with the changes in physical and natural asset conditions. The paper explores how investment planning to mitigate the water security threats and explore opportunities to increase the value of investments. The paper finds that grey infrastructure has regulated threats from increasing in the downstream of the river basin, however, continuous increase in water security threats in the upstream of the basin threatens water security downstream. This is evident from the spatial connectivity and unidirection externalities. As the capacity to further increase in grey investment is reaching its limit in the downstream, the increases in green infrastructure investment upstream, especially in the Grande River basin, could be one the way to reduce the externalities and minimise the water security risks. View Full-Text

Keywords: water security threats; grey investments; green investments; principal component analysis

▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited

Share and Cite

MDPI and ACS Style

Teixeira, A.L.d.F.; Bhaduri, A.; Bunn, S.E.; Ayrimoraes, S.R. Operationalizing Water Security Concept in Water Investment Planning: Case Study of São Francisco River Basin. Water 2021, 13, 3658. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243658

AMA Style

Teixeira ALdF, Bhaduri A, Bunn SE, Ayrimoraes SR. Operationalizing Water Security Concept in Water Investment Planning: Case Study of São Francisco River Basin. Water. 2021; 13(24):3658. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243658

Chicago/Turabian Style

Teixeira, Alexandre L.d.F., Anik Bhaduri, Stuart E. Bunn, and Sérgio R. Ayrimoraes. 2021. "Operationalizing Water Security Concept in Water Investment Planning: Case Study of São Francisco River Basin" Water 13, no. 24: 3658. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13243658

Find Other Styles

Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here.

Article Metrics

Abstract views Pdf views Html views

Article Access Map by Country/Region

Author Biographies

Alexandre Lima de F. Teixeira

Alexandre Teixeira is a water resources specialist of the National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA – Brazil) and was the former coordinator of water resources information management from 2010 to 2019 in ANA. Alexandre is a Civil Engineer (1999), with a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research in Engineering (COPPE/UFRJ), Brazil (2001). Alexandre is a PhD Student from the Australian Rivers Institute in the Griffith University. Alexandre has experience in water resources planning studies, water resources spatial analysis and water supply and sanitation projects.

Anik Bhaduri

Anik Bhaduri is an accomplished leader in the field of water economics, global water policy and water governance with over 15 years of experience. Anik Bhaduri received his PhD in 2005 from University of Wyoming, USA focussing on transboundary water allocation between states. Anik is the Director of the Sustainable Water Future Programme (Water Future) of Future Earth. He is an Associate Professor at the Australian River Institute, Griffith University, Australia. With a background in environment and natural resource economics, Anik carried out extensive research in theoretical and applied water economics focussing on several topics and projects, ranging from transboundary water sharing to adaptive water management under climate change. Anik has contributed extensively to integrating geostatistical models with spatial projections of economic development, demographics, land use, water allocations, and climate, and show how threats to human water security intensify throughout the century.

Stuart E. Bunn

Stuart Bunn is the Director of the Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. His major research interests are in the ecology of river and wetland systems with a particular focus on the science to underpin river management. Stuart received his PhD in 1986 from University of Western Australia. Stuart has extensive experience working with international and Australian government agencies and with industry on water resource management issues. He is a member of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority and has previously served as an Australian National Water Commissioner, the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Lake Eyre Basin Ministerial Forum, the Chair of the Science Committee for Healthy Land and Water Limited, and as a Director of Land and Water Australia. He was recently appointed as a member of the Earth Commission, hosted by Future Earth.

Sérgio R. Ayrimoraes

Sérgio Ayrimoraes is a water resources specialist of the National Water and Sanitation Agency (ANA – Brazil) and former superintendent of water resources planning (2013-2021). Sérgio is a Civil Engineer (1999), with Master of Science in Environmental Technology from the University of Brasília, Brazil (2002), and PhD Student from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 2021. Sérgio has 20 years of experience in coordinating studies and plans on water security, water pollution control and the multiple uses of water.

Article Menu

Operationalizing Water Security Concept in Water Investment Planning: Case Study of São Francisco River Basin

Abstract

Share and Cite

Article Metrics

Article Access Statistics

Article Access Map by Country/Region

Author Biographies

Further Information

Guidelines

MDPI Initiatives

Follow MDPI