From Fragmented to Joint Responsibilities: Barriers and Opportunities for Adaptive Water Quality Governance in California’s Urban-Agricultural Interface
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California is facing a critical water supply and water quality crisis, necessitating a clear shift in the way water resources are managed. This study assesses the effectiveness of water law and policy in the urban-agricultural interface, where the two discharge into common waterways but have different regulatory requirements. A case study from one of California’s most productive agricultural regions, the Salinas Valley, explores the complexities and inadequacies of current water law in the interface, as well as promising integrated water management schemes. The article’s findings are based on archival research, extensive document review and 15 in-depth interviews with key stakeholders. Findings suggest that local, state and federal water policy is severely fragmented, providing little incentive for the multitude of water entities to collaborate on multi-benefit projects and resulting in unsuccessful water quality improvements. There is a strong need for a more integrated policy approach that bridges different types of dischargers (agricultural and urban), water quality and water quantity issues and also incorporates land uses into policy decision making.
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Regulatory exemptions can encourage conflict between upstream agricultural landowners who see urban land use as the main problem and downstream urban communities that argue mitigation should be the responsibility of upstream farm communities that introduced the pollution.
“Regulatory exemptions can encourage conflict between upstream agricultural landowners who see urban land use as the main problem and downstream urban communities that argue mitigation should be the responsibility of upstream farm communities that introduced the pollution”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredUrban stormwater is a source of pollution in need of attention.
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In California, urban land use and construction are responsible for impairment of more surface area of lakes than agricultural land use and around 60% the mileage of streams and rivers as agricultural land use.
“In California, urban land use and construction are responsible for the impairment of more surface area of lakes than agricultural land use and around 60% the mileage of streams and rivers as agricultural land use (Drevno 2018).”
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“…wherein some agricultural operations (e.g., CAFOs) and any suburban or urban community serviced by storm sewers are covered by more stringent regulatory system as “point sources” while the bulk of agricultural land remains only voluntarily addressed (Eisen 1995; Drevno 2018; Schroer 2020).”
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- Authors
- Drevno, A.
- Affiliations
- Santa Clara University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Drevno, Ann
- ORCID
- Drevno, Ann
- Venue
- Resources
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2018-03-17
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 22
- ISSN
- 2079-9276 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2794234998
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (1749062)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Environmental Science and Water Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water Resource Management and Quality
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Water Science and Technology › Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Keywords
- water quality governance, water law, integrated water resources management, urban discharge, Salinas Valley, water quality improvement, water resources management
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