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URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT AND DROUGHT: WHAT CAN LOS ANGELES LEARN FROM AUSTRALIA'S MILLENNIUM DROUGHT? Dave Jaeckel|MEM 2015 Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Background 2 Melbourne Los Angeles Background 3 And if never

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URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT AND DROUGHT: WHAT CAN LOS ANGELES LEARN FROM AUSTRALIA'S MILLENNIUM DROUGHT?

Dave Jaeckel|MEM 2015 Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

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Melbourne Los Angeles

Background

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“And if never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry

  • years. It was always that way.”
  • John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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Background

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Presentation Roadmap

  • California and Australia droughts
  • Why Melbourne?
  • Research methods
  • Lessons learned from Melbourne

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Sources: United States Drought Monitor, NBCnews.com

Roadmap

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California Drought

  • Going into fourth consecutive year of drought.
  • 2013 driest year on record; maybe driest in past 500 years.
  • Reservoir storage capacity at 38% in comparison with average

conditions.

  • 90% ‘severe to exceptional drought’
  • 11 trillion gallons to recover

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Los Angeles

Sources: United States Drought Monitor, NBCnews.com

Drought Monitor for Feb 24, 2015

Drought

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Australia’s Millennium Drought

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Melbourne

Sources: Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology

  • 1997 – 2010: longest period of

rainfall deficit on record.

  • Produced changes to the way

Australia manages its water, and created a political atmosphere supportive of deep investment and rapid innovation.

  • Accelerated reforms to water

laws and institutions that were already underway.

  • All of Australia impacted.

Australian Rainfall Deciles 1/1/97 – 12/31/2009

Drought

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Why Melbourne?

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  • Water governance
  • Scaled stormwater capture
  • Water behavior change
  • Desalination cautionary tale

Melbourne

Melbourne

Sources: City of Melbourne

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Research Methods

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Informal interviews with urban water management representatives from government, academia, and industry.

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Methods

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The Energy Coalition and TreePeople sponsored California delegation to Australia.

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Methods

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Research Questions

Three Focal Areas:

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Collaborative Governance:

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Methods

Sources: Office of Living Victoria

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Fostering Public Stewardship:

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Methods

Sources: Office of Living Victoria, City of Melbourne

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Deploying Technologies to Scale:

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Methods

Sources: Office of Living Victoria,

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Lessons Learned from Melbourne

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  • Collaborative Governance

1. Lessons: Collaborative Governance

Sources: Office of Living Victoria

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Melbourne in 1980s

Lessons: Collaborative Governance

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Melbourne During Drought

Lessons: Collaborative Governance

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Metropolitan Whole-of-Water-Cycle Management Plans - Generic Governance Arrangements

Local Government Environment Protection Authority Department of Health Department of Environment and Primary Industry Department of Transport, Planning and Local Infrastructure Urban Development Institute of Australia Developers Water Management Committees VicRoads ‘Friends of’ Groups

Stakeholders

Large Institutional Water Users Local Environment Groups Regional Industry Peak Bodies Catchment Management Authorities Other

Governing Bodies Project Steering Committee Project Directors Group

Office of Living Victoria Melbourne Water Water Corporations Local Government (one from each) Metropolitan Planning Authority Parks Victoria

Community engagement Community engagement Community engagement

OLV Project Manager OLV Project Team Technical Working Groups

(various to be determined)

Recreational users

Melbourne Today:

Lessons: Collaborative Governance

Sources: Office of Living Victoria

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  • Collaborative Governance

2.

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cool the city by 39 degrees Fahrenheit

Lessons: Collaborative Governance

Sources: City of Melbourne

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  • Public Stewardship

1. Melbourne Water System Storage 2003 - 2009 Lessons: Public Stewardship

Sources: Office of Living Victoria

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Lessons: Public Stewardship

Sources City of Melbourne

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  • Decentralized Technologies

1. Lessons: Decentralized Technology

Sources: Office of Living Victoria

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Next Steps

  • Develop policy recommendations for LA’s urban water

management system with TreePeople based on Australia’s experience.

  • Complete white paper with TreePeople outlining these policy

recommendations.

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Conclusion