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Water Governance

as Problem-solving

Bryan Bruns

BryanBruns@BryanBruns.comDRAFT JUNE 30, 2009Prepared for “New Thinking On Water Governance ”

A Regional Consultation Workshop on Improving Water Governance, 1-4 July 2009Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

National University of Singapore

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OVERVIEW:

Water Governance as Problem-solving

Introduction: Changing the game

Adaptive co-management in irrigationFinding polycentric solutions in river basins

Institutional diversity in water supply

Paths to water rights

Conclusions: Growing water governance throughpolycentric problem-solving

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INTRODUCTION

CHANGING THE GAME

Beyond Panaceas

Limits to Leapfrogging

Principled Pragmatism

Stakeholders Solving Problems

Changing rules, and changinghow rules are made

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ADAPTIVE CO-MANAGEMENT

IN IRRIGATION

Beyond PIM and IMT

From transfer to co-management

Practical diagnosis and design

Smart subsidies for progressiveimprovement

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SOLUTIONS

IN RIVER BASINS

Expediency, subsystems,and problemsheds

Polycentric problem-solving

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INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY

IN WATER SUPPLY

Beyond public versus private

Imperfect institutions:

market, state, and communityfailures

Mixing water suppliers

Community

PrivatePublic

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PATHS TO WATER RIGHTS

Pilots and perils

Sequencing reforms:

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CONCLUSIONS

Measuring results

Growing water governancethrough polycentricproblem-solving