84
5 Challenges: Sectoral Descriptions
Fig. 5.14 Drainage canal in the Wesermarsch (Lower Saxony), Germany. c
Ahlhorn
much more duties and tasks are connected to water management. It is not possible and
would go beyond the scope of this book to comprehensively summarize these different
fields of water management (Fig. 5.14).
Definition in the USA
The legal definition of water management in the USA
8 is as follows:
States and local governments establish water management departments to oversee the drainage
of surface water and the reclamation of wetlands, swamplands, overflowed lands and tidal
marshes and flood prevention and the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of
water. Some of the duties of water management include:
• To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened,
widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse;
• To construct for the purposes of flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization or disposal of water works of improvement, including levees, embankments, floodwater
retarding structures, water storage structures, outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods, providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet,
swamp or overflowed lands and other related works of improvement that will carry out the
purposes of this article; and
• To provide maintenance for such installations.
Definition in Australia
The second definition and primarily focusing on the principles of water management was
taken from Australia.
9 Water management has mainly to deal with
8 See: definitions.uslegal.com: access Apr. 2017.
9 See: www.austlii.edu.au: access Apr. 2017.
5 Challenges: Sectoral Descriptions
Fig. 5.14 Drainage canal in the Wesermarsch (Lower Saxony), Germany. c
Ahlhorn
much more duties and tasks are connected to water management. It is not possible and
would go beyond the scope of this book to comprehensively summarize these different
fields of water management (Fig. 5.14).
Definition in the USA
The legal definition of water management in the USA
8 is as follows:
States and local governments establish water management departments to oversee the drainage
of surface water and the reclamation of wetlands, swamplands, overflowed lands and tidal
marshes and flood prevention and the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of
water. Some of the duties of water management include:
• To locate and establish levees, drains or canals and to cause to be constructed, straightened,
widened or deepened any ditch, drain or watercourse;
• To construct for the purposes of flood prevention or the conservation, development, utilization or disposal of water works of improvement, including levees, embankments, floodwater
retarding structures, water storage structures, outlets and tide gates, flood gates and pumping plants for preventing floods, providing drainage, reducing sediment and reclaiming wet,
swamp or overflowed lands and other related works of improvement that will carry out the
purposes of this article; and
• To provide maintenance for such installations.
Definition in Australia
The second definition and primarily focusing on the principles of water management was
taken from Australia.
9 Water management has mainly to deal with
8 See: definitions.uslegal.com: access Apr. 2017.
9 See: www.austlii.edu.au: access Apr. 2017.