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Browsing by Author "Orprecio, Jim L."

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  • Addressing the water resource management issue
    Orprecio, Jim L.; Rola, Agnes C.; Deutsch, William G.; Coxhead, Ian; Sumbalan, Antonio (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002)
    The rapid growth in demand for water by the agricultural, industrial and household sectors will place greater pressure on Philippine water supplies in the future. Among the many water management issues, surface water management, watershed management or more precisely, river basin management is prominent in both the local and national scenes.
  • Community-based water monitoring in the Philippines and beyond: A decade of investment and potential
    Deutsch, William G.; Orprecio, Jim L. (2004)
    This presentation describes the steps taken to spread community based water monitoring programs in the Philippines. First the watershed processes were taught, followed by action strategies, and then post-SANREM strategies were taught for the sustainability of the water monitoring.
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    Community-based water quality monitoring: From data collection to sustainable management of water resources
    Deutsch, William G.; Busby, Allison L.; Orprecio, Jim L.; Bago-Labis, Janeth P.; Cequiña, Estela Y. (Los Baños, Philippines: Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development, 2001)
    The following is an account of how a rural community in the Philippines worked side by side with researchers, nongovernmental and governmental workers over a five-year period to develop science-based indicators of water quality that proved relevant for developing environmental policy. The case primarily focused on the early stages of implementing a municipal-level, natural resource management plan in Lantapan. The setting and background of the project are briefly described, followed by the nature of specific indicators and how they were chosen and refined. Next, the process by which these indicators influenced policy are documented, concluding with lessons learned throughout the process.
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    Community-based water quality monitoring: The Tigbantay Wahig experience
    Deutsch, William G.; Orprecio, Jim L.; Bago-Labis, J. (Los Baños, Philippines: Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development, 2001)
    This chapter will document the exciting development of a peopleï'½s organization in Lantapan that is committed to protecting and restoring the water resources of their municipality. It will briefly place this development in the historical context of Philippine decentralization and the rise of environmentally-related nongovernmental groups, as well as the goals and cornerstones of the SANREM CRSP program. The groups' technical and social formation will be outlined, with a description of milestones, success stories and future directions.
  • Formation, potential and challenges of a citizen volunteer water quality monitoring group in Mindanao, Philippines
    Deutsch, William G.; Orprecio, Jim L. (Watkingsville, Ga.: SANREM CRSP, 2000)
    The objectives of this work were to facilitate the development of water quality and watershed assessments by local communities, and to provide physicochemical data that could be used to improve water quality and to influence policy. Such a participatory approach to natural resource management on a landscape scale, which involved researchers from various disciplines and partners from various governmental and nongovernmental sectors, was the goal of the greater SANREM
  • More efficient water pricing may avert a water crisis
    Orprecio, Jim L.; Rola, Agnes C.; Deutsch, William G.; Coxhead, Ian; Sumbalan, Antonio (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002)
    One way of protecting watersheds from further degradation is to impose a more efficient pricing policy for waterâ one that does not only cover the direct cost of water distribution but also the cost of watershed as the provider of water. Ms. Dulce Elazegui of the Institute of Strategic Planning and Policy Studies of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños recommends the allocation of government revenues from these additional charges to management-related activities aimed at conserving watersheds. A certain amount of these additional revenues should be earmarked for the implementation of a watershed management plan.
  • To reduce pollution: Polluters should pay
    Orprecio, Jim L.; Rola, Agnes C.; Deutsch, William G.; Coxhead, Ian; Sumbalan, Antonio (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002)
    Charging polluters according to the concentration of pollutants that they discharge is an effective way to minimize water and air pollution. This is the rationale of the " polluters pay" principle.
  • Using community-generated data for water management policy
    Orprecio, Jim L.; Rola, Agnes C.; Deutsch, William G.; Coxhead, Ian; Sumbalan, Antonio (Makati City, Philippines: Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2002)
    As population and their demands for water continue to rise, water resources in turn become more scarce. In the Philippines, where surface water constitutes about three quarters of the country's fresh water supply and comes largely from rivers and lakes sourced from the forest ecosystem or the watersheds, its growing scarcity is thus largely associated with the degradation of watersheds. And because of the spatial nature of such concerns, their solutions require locally-based action that is consistent with decisions and support at the watershed and national levels. Certainly, communities located within watershed areas and headwaters are the most affected by problems in the watersheds. As such, it is only appropriate that they should take on a more active role in addressing such concerns and in influencing decisions and policies that relate to them.
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    Watershed data from the grassroots...Is it enough to capture the trends and turn the tide?
    Deutsch, William G.; Orprecio, Jim L. (2001)
    The "Water Resource Management and Education" work plan of the SANREM/Southeast Asia program was designed to facilitate the development of community-based water monitoring teams who could collect credible data on a regular basis and thus understand watershed trends. The community now has multi-year trend data on such things as bacteriological concentrations in rivers and drinking water supplies, stream discharge and sediment yield estimates. Thousands of samples collected by volunteers have provided a large amount of water information that would not otherwise be available because of limited assessments made by governmental or private agencies. The monitors are aware of what their information implies and they are influencing policy and community action in the Manupali River watershed and beyond. This paper will focus on the cost-effectiveness, reliability and value of community-based monitoring programs when they are implemented in technically sound and participatory ways.