Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India

Rozemarijn ter Horst; Claire I. Michailovsky; Elga Salvadore; K. S. Chaitanya

doi:10.1080/02508060.2024.2303783

Does data lead to cooperation? Lessons from Water Accounting Plus in the Cauvery basin, India

Rozemarijn ter Horst, Claire I. Michailovsky, Elga Salvadore, K. S. Chaitanya

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As the number of studies on remote sensing data for water management and governance increases, few articles reflect on their application in practice. This article shares learnings from the application of Water Accounting Plus (WA+) in a federal river basin in India. WA+ was applied to the Cauvery basin to contribute to solving transboundary water-sharing issues by providing a source of transparent data obtained through reproducible methods. By analysing how WA+ results and methodology were received, we show how data and models are also political and question the assumption that more data automatically lead to more equitable decision-making.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1025-1045
Number of pages	21
Journal	Water International
Volume	48
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2024.2303783
Publication status	Published - 17 Nov 2023

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This research is executed with funding from the Water and Development Partnership Programme (DUPC2) between the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as with in-kind support from IISc Bangalore, the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).

Funding Information:
This research was supported by the Water Accounting Phase II Project, funded by the IHE Delft Water and Development Partnership Programme (DUPC2) under programmatic cooperation between the Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and IHE Delft (ID DGIS Activity [grant no. DME0121369]). This research is executed with funding from the Water and Development Partnership Programme (DUPC2) between the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as with in-kind support from IISc Bangalore, the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).

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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Political life of models
transboundary water cooperation and conflict
Water Accounting Plus

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