Mapping Public Water Management: Proof of Concept

Mapping Public Water Management: Proof of Concept
- Overview
- Key Findings
Overview
What cannot be measured cannot be managed. Poor water management poses major risks to agriculture, industry, and local communities. However, there is a critical lack of information available about local water conditions, making better management difficult.
This technical note, a collaboration between the Pacific Institute and the World Resources Institute, documents the results of a public water management pilot with six companies and 41 facilities, creating an updated question set to better understand conditions of public water management from a stakeholder perspective. It is part of a project to map public water risk by harmonizing and sharing water risk information among industrial water users on access to information on water quantity and quality, the state of infrastructure, the existence and enforcement of allocations and caps, and local pricing systems.