I am a retired Canadian water resources engineer with background in interjurisdictional water management. The Prairie provinces of Canada have a water sharing agreement based on percent of apportionable flow of a river (what the flow of a river would be without human influences). So essentially whether the river is at low or high flows both the upstream and downstream jurisdiction are entitled to 50% of the apportionable flow as calculated at the border crossing. What are your thoughts on percentage based flow agreements vs volumetric based flow agreements, particularly as climate change increases flow variability?
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I am a retired Canadian water resources engineer with background in interjurisdictional water management. The Prairie provinces of Canada have a water sharing agreement based on percent of apportionable flow of a river (what the flow of a river would be without human influences). So essentially whether the river is at low or high flows both the upstream and downstream jurisdiction are entitled to 50% of the apportionable flow as calculated at the border crossing. What are your thoughts on percentage based flow agreements vs volumetric based flow agreements, particularly as climate change increases flow variability?
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