Border Institute IV

"Binational Water Management Planning:

Consideration of Opportunities, Costs, Benefits, and Unintended Consequences:
Secure and Sustainable Water in the Border Region by 2020"

Rio Rico, Arizona, May 6-8, 2002


Together with the Border Trade Alliance and the U.S. EPA Office of International Activities, SCERP sponsors an annual Border Institute to convene top-level stakeholders, experts,and policy makers to discuss options for development of the region that lead to a sustainable future. Border Institute I focused on demography and economics. Border Institute II examined possibilities for reinventing the economy in ways that incorporate principles of natural capitalism and financing environmental infrastructure. Border Institute III evaluated the tensions between trade, energy, and the environment.

Border Institute IV examined:

  • General Binational Water Issues
  • Border Water Supply Interdependencies
  • Border Water Demand Budgets, Balances, and Projections
  • Sustainable Border Water: Appropriate Sourcing, Benign Transfers, Efficient Uses, Perpetual Reuses
  • Cross-Jurisdiction Water Cooperation Case Studies
  • Policies for Secure and Sustainable Water
  • A Binational Water Tour, Reception, and Demonstrations
  • Border Institute Executive Summary [in English] [en español]

    BI-IV Presentations in PowerPoint Format

    For more information on Border Institute IV:

    D. Rick Van Schoik
    tel: (619) 594–0568
    e-mail:scerp@mail.sdsu.edu


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