Realities of Adaptive Groundwater Management

William Blomquist is Professor of Political Science and Adjunct Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and a Senior Research Fellow of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University - Bloomington.  His research interests concern governmental organization and public policy, with a specialization in the field of water institutions and water management.  His published books include Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California; Common Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management in Arizona, California, and Colorado (with Edella Schlager and Tanya Heikkila); Integrated Water Resource Management through Decentralization (co-edited with Karin Kemper and Ariel Dinar); Embracing Watershed Politics (with Edella Schlager), and Governing Complexity: Analyzing and Applying Polycentricity (co-edited with Andreas Thiel and Dustin Garrick).

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Realities of Adaptive Management.- Chapter 2. The Natural Physical System of Chino Basin.- Chapter 3. The Development of Water Supplies and Water Conservation in Chino Basin.- Chapter 4.Upstream-Downstream Conflicts, 1930-1960.- Chapter 5. Setting the Stage for a Chino Basin Management Program: Changes in Water Use, and the Third Santa Ana River Litigation, 1960-1969.- Chapter 6. The Chino Basin Adjudication.- Chapter 7. The Governance Structure for Chino Basin under the Judgment.- Chapter 8. Water Management in the Basin during the First 20 Years under the Judgment.- Chapter 9. Turbulence: The 1990s in Chino Basin.- Chapter 10. Reconstituting Chino Basin Governance and Management.- Chapter 11. Adapting to Social and Economic Change.- Chapter 12. Adapting to and with the Neighbors.- Chapter 13. Adapting to the Changing Realities of Water Supply.- Chapter 14. Adapting to Water Quality Problems and Priorities.- Chapter 15. Resetting the Safe Yield and Reappointing the Watermaster.- Chapter 16. Looking Ahead: The Reality of Continual Adaptation.- Chapter 17. Lessons from Chino Basin for Adaptive Groundwater Management [note: includes section on California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)].