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Final Report: Armstrong 2013 Exploratory Interviews of Water Managers

Authors: Andrea Armstrong
Owners: iUTAH Data Manager · Andrea Armstrong
Resource type:Generic
Created:Jul 15, 2016 at 8:34 p.m.
Last updated: Dec 30, 2016 at 10:54 p.m. by iUTAH Data Manager

Abstract

This report summarizes results from my first year’s iUTAH fellowship (2012-13), which involved exploratory, qualitative research on local water management in the Wasatch Regional Metropolitan Area, specifically focusing on Cache Valley, Heber Valley, and the Red Butte Watershed of Salt Lake City, Utah. Data collection consisted of two types of activities: meeting observations and semi-structured interviews. I reviewed meeting notes and synthetic notes for prevailing themes, and distinguished between patterns that emerged both within and across the three study areas.

The structure of water management in the WRMA crosses macro-institutional, meso-watershed, and micro-individual scales. The focus of my research has been at the meso-scale, within which many local water management organizations (LWMOs) make critical decisions surrounding water quality and quantity. In this first phase of my work, I identify five types of key organization decisions made by LWMOs: operational, maintenance, water supply, infrastructure change, and enforcement. I then describe four types of linkages among WRMA water actors and provide examples of how these linkages impact LWMOs’ decisions. I then describe and analyze the ways in which LWMOs are making adaptive decisions in the face of key changes in urbanization and water availability. Two common adaptive processes are: (a) improving infrastructure efficiency, and (b) engaging in organizational partnerships. The report concludes with directions for future research. The LWMO interview instrument is included in the appendix.

Subject Keywords

Cache Valley,Heber Valley,adaptation,local water management organizations,water management,interview,meeting observations,iUTAH

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Armstrong, A. (2016). Final Report: Armstrong 2013 Exploratory Interviews of Water Managers, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/2bbd6345e2e44f7bb3ccfb7a156482c4

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Spatial:

 Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:  WGS 84 EPSG:4326
 Coordinate Units:  Decimal degrees
North Latitude
42.0085°
East Longitude
-111.1432°
South Latitude
40.0697°
West Longitude
-112.3517°

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Andrea Armstrong

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Douglas Jackson-Smith

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Agency Name Award Title Award Number
National Science Foundation iUTAH-innovative Urban Transitions and Aridregion Hydro-sustainability 1208732

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