Kwanyuen, Bancha A.

Lansigan, Felino P.

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University of Colorado Law SchoolColorado Law Scholarly CommonsAllocating and Managing Water for a SustainableFuture: Lessons from Around the World (SummerConference, June 11-14)Getches-Wilkinson Center Conferences,Workshops, and Hot Topics6-11-2002Exploratory Analysis of Multiple Use Options forWater Resources Management: The Case of theMae Klong River Basin, Thailand [abstract]Felino P. LansiganBancha A. KwanyuenFollow this and additional works at: http://scholar.law.colorado.edu/allocating-and-managing-water-for-sustainable-futurePart of the Environmental Policy Commons, Natural Resources and Conservation Commons,Natural Resources Management and Policy Commons, and the Water Resource ManagementCommonsReproduced with permission of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment (formerly the Natural ResourcesLaw Center) at the University of Colorado Law School.Citation InformationLansigan, Felino P. and Kwanyuen, Bancha A., "Exploratory Analysis of Multiple Use Options for Water Resources Management: TheCase of the Mae Klong River Basin, Thailand [abstract]" (2002). Allocating and Managing Water for a Sustainable Future: Lessons fromAround the World (Summer Conference, June 11-14).http://scholar.law.colorado.edu/allocating-and-managing-water-for-sustainable-future/29    Felino P. Lansigan & Bancha A. Kwanyuen, Exploratory Analysis of Multiple Use Options for Water Resources Management: The Case of the Mae Klong River Basin, Thailand [abstract], in ALLOCATING AND MANAGING WATER FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE: LESSONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD (Natural Res. Law Ctr., Univ. of Colo. Sch. of Law 2002).  Reproduced with permission of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment (formerly the Natural Resources Law Center) at the University of Colorado Law School.  Exploratory Analysis of Multiple Use Options for Water Resources Management: The Case of the Mae Klong River Basin, ThailandBy: Felino P. Lansigan and Bancha A. KwanyuenFelino P. Lansigan, Professor Bancha A. Kwanyuen, ProfessorInternational Water Management Kasetsart University, KamphaengsaenInstitute-Southeast Asia Nontriburi, Thailand7th Floor, IFRPD Bldg Email: bak@nontri.ku.ac.thKasetsart UniversityBangkok, ThailandPhone: +66-2-561-4433 Ext. 120Fax:+66-2-561-1230Email: f.lansigan@cgiar.orgFelino P. Lansigan is a Professor at the University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB) in the Philippines, and is presently on special detail assignment as visiting Senior Regional Researcher at the International Water Management Institute-Southeast Asia (IWMI-SEA) office based in Bangkok, Thailand. In recent years, he has been actively involved in a number of international multi-disciplinary research initiatives on the development of decision support systems (DSS) in natural resources management using the available systems research tools (e.g. simulation modeling, geographic information system, optimization techniques, etc.). At IWMI, he is presently doing research on the methodology for optimal analysis of multiple use options of water and land resources in a river basin which forms the basis for further research study of other benchmark catchments. Professor Lansigan studied at UPLB in the Philippines where he finished his B.Sc. (1975) and M.Sc. (1977). He obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA in 1982.ABSTRACTIncreasing population in urban and rural areas continues to exert pressure on water resources through changing land use, intensive and extensive agricultural production systems, land conversion, etc. Rapid urbanization transforms the spatial and temporal distribution, quantity and quality of water resources resulting in exploitation, environmental degradation and instability. The competition among different sectors such as agriculture, industry, power generation, human settlements, ecological services, etc. for water resources to produce food, fiber, electricity and other products requires efficient and optimal management of these resources in a catchment, and losses or negative effects to the environment are minimized.Major advances have been made on new or improved models or decision support systems for natural resources management. Systems research tools that are currently available such as dynamic simulation models, geographic information systems (GIS), optimization technique and databases, and which are being used separately in various practical applications can be fully integrated as a decision tool for exploratory water resources management analysis. The interactive multiple goal analysis provides the framework inwhich water resources management is approached as a multi-objective optimization problem where development and management priorities and agenda as well as the constraints and limitations on the environment and the natural resources are estimated and quantified. The procedure facilitates interactions among stakeholders such as policy and decision makers, development planners, and leaders at different local government hierarchical levels (i.e. region, province, district and village).The paper presents a framework for exploratory analysis of the multiple use options by multiple users of water, and applies it to the Mae Klong river basin in west central Thailand. It demonstrates that all stakeholders in the river basin (irrigation department, electricity generating authority, provincial water authority, groups of farmers, different districts, tambons and villages, etc.) may be accommodated in identifying the allocation and management of water resources under multiple uses. Acceptable options with corresponding tradeoffs may be determined which satisfactorily meet the needs for multiple water uses (irrigation, fisheries, power and energy, domestic supply, industrial use, ecological services, etc.).

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