Total water management : practices for a sustainable future

"The book explains how to identify and involve all stakeholders in decision-making processes. It defines the viewpoint of each stakeholder group: utilities, consumers, industry, agriculture, government officials, regulators, suppliers, public interest groups, and others and their roles and responsibilities in making TWM successful. With this book, water managers can use TWM to balance competing uses through efficient allocation by planning and managing dynamically; adapt TWM to changing conditions and local and regional variations; use TWM to share responsibility, coordination, and conflict resolution to reach decisions with participation of all units of government and stakeholders." Content: Total water management : from vision to execution -- Water management and its impacts -- Total water management : vision, principles, and examples -- Planning and shared governance -- Triple bottom line reporting for water agencies -- Value and cost of water -- Environmental water : assessment, value, and sustainability -- Social impacts of water management -- Laws and regulations of water management -- Political and institutional obstacles to TWM -- Environmental stewardship, ethics, and education -- Water industry prospects and policies. "Total Water Management: Practices for a Sustainable Future offers to water utility managers and others involved in the water industry powerful and urgently needed tools to balance needs of water management and the environment. This book serves as an instruction manual for integrating the water needs of society and the environment. It is about the balance between our responsibilities to provide safe and reliable water services and to protect the environment."--Jacket "Total Water Management: Practices for a Sustainable Future explains what TWM means in unambiguous language. It expands, explains, and illustrates TWM concepts and how to apply them. It is a useful, practical book on water planning for water resource managers, designed to help managers fairly allocate limited water resources among competing users, based on social values, cost-effectiveness, and needs of the natural water systems." Total water management is the exercise of stewardship and shared governance of water resources among utilities, business, and government for the greatest good of society and the environment.