Reasonable water management shift via Sefficiency in Sequity

ABSTRACT

It is urgent to transform management of water use systems towards sustainability, fairness and no significant harm by systemically answering the subsequent essential questions. How to comprehensively integrate the six central perspectives – adaptation/mitigation, supply/demand, descriptive/performance? How to quantify input/output (I/O) differentials along the three pillars (water quantity, quality, benefits/values)? How to integrate and quantify sustainable equity (Sequity), sustainable I/O efficiencies (Sefficiency), conservation, and impact differentials at different levels? How to make reasonable judgements in decision-making processes? Current water management frameworks fail to present good-enough responses to these foundational questions, contrary to the complex and novel shift outlined here.

KEYWORDS:

• Stakeholders
• adaptation solution
• water poverty/excess
• reasonable judgement
• resilience

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL:

• SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation

Acknowledgments

Much appreciation goes to Gabriel Eckstein, Professor of Law, Texas A&M University, for his insights regarding reasonable decision-making. I would also like to thank the valuable comments of reviewers in improving the readability of this complex paper.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).