Agua local se globaliza: narrativas agua

The briefing examines the limitations of current water management frameworks, such as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and the water-energy-food nexus, in addressing water teleconnections. Using case studies from Colombia and Southeast Asia, it demonstrates how agricultural exports (coffee and rice) transfer 'virtual water' across borders, creating dependencies that are not captured by traditional basin-level planning. The author contends that a multi-scale approach is necessary to integrate local challenges with regional and global economic connections.

• Relying on a single water management narrative, such as the water-energy-food nexus or Integrated Water Resources Management, can lead to a misunderstanding of local challenges or a failure to recognize how water is transferred across different scales via economic or physical connections.
• Water teleconnections create invisible flows and dependencies beyond basin boundaries that are typically ignored in water management. For example, in the Campoalegre basin in Colombia, only 5.3% of produced coffee is consumed domestically, while in the Songkhram basin in Southeast Asia, high-quality jasmine rice is exported to nearby provinces and international markets as 'virtual water'.
• Traditional watershed-based planning is often inadequate because the scale of a river basin may be too large to address small-scale community and ecosystem issues, or too small to account for regional and global factors and cumulative impacts.

APA

Coleoni, C. (2022). Agua local se globaliza: narrativas agua. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/perspectives/agua-local-se-globaliza-narrativas-agua/

Chicago

Coleoni, Cláudia. Agua local se globaliza: narrativas agua. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2022. https://www.sei.org/perspectives/agua-local-se-globaliza-narrativas-agua/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{coleoni2022agua, author = {Coleoni, Cláudia}, title = {{Agua local se globaliza: narrativas agua}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/perspectives/agua-local-se-globaliza-narrativas-agua/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }