Leveraging Hydrologic Accounting and Water Markets for Improved Water Management: The Case for a Central Clearinghouse
Leveraging Hydrologic Accounting and Water Markets for Improved Water Management: The Case for a Central Clearinghouse
复制标题
利用水文核算和水市场改善水资源管理：中央信息交换所案例
作者：
Stephen Maples;Ellen M. Bruno;Alejo Kraus;S. N. Roberts;Lauren M. Foster
有效的水资源管理需要向社会表明水的稀缺价值。然而，准确的信号发送常常受到对水文储量和水流量的不完整和/或不及时的计算的限制。在这篇评论文章中，我们主张建立一个深入而概念简单的框架，用于透明、实时地核算水的储存和流量，包括地下水和地表水，为围绕中央交换所组织的水市场提供信息。该框架促进学科之间的直接合作，以提高系统效率并提高水管理透明度。我们以加州水资源管理为例，说明中央票据交换所框架的潜力，事实证明，该框架对该地区能源市场的透明度非常有益。
Effective management of water resources requires signaling the scarcity value of water to society. However, accurate signaling is often limited by incomplete and/or untimely accounting of hydrologic stores and flows of water. In this opinion piece, we advocate an incisive yet conceptually simple framework for transparent, real-time accounting of water stores and flows, including both groundwater and surface water, to inform water markets organized around a central clearinghouse. This framework promotes forthright collaboration among disciplines to improve system efficiency and increase water-management transparency. We use California water management as an example for the potential for a central clearinghouse framework that has proven so beneficial to transparency of energy markets in that region.