206 R. W. Buddemeier et al.
Table 2. Inventorylflux comparisons -- approximate annual volumes
Q
Q
CI conc
Pop.
acre-ft yr-!
m3 yr.!
mgr!
Notes
Wastewater:
Hutchinson
40000
6300
7.8E+06
400
Nickerson
1000
100
1.2E+05
Great Bend
15000
1800
2.2E+06
370
Total
56000
8200
1.0E+07
Water use:
Mostly groundwater
HutchinsonNickerson Area
16000
2.0E+07
Northern
Stafford County
10 000
l.2E+07
Not incl. QNWR
Permian Saltwater
Inflow:
Northern
Stafford County
2400
2.9E+06
40000
QuiviraNWR
water right:
14600
1.8E+07
Surface water
3.2 The Decision.Making Process
The processes of data collection and creation of adequate databases have extended
over the last decade. During that time period, information was transferred among
the different institutions involved with the studies, the clients, and the state
agencies. Information was transferred through reports, individual contacts, shared
electronic databases, formal seminars, and occasional meetings. A wide variety of
solutions were proposed and considered for the specific problems of quantity
depletion and quality deterioration of water resources in GMD2 and GMD5.
However, no solutions practical for each of the GMDs individually could compete
with the severity of the problems_
The next phase was to look for an IWRM solution for both GMDs together,
considering them as a single unit. This raises the issues of defining an adequate
basic approach to a staged evaluation of the options and eventual development of
an optimal solution. It is simply not practical to consider that with current
scientific and management platforms and expert systems the optimal solution can
be directly obtained in a single stage of analysis and review. Alternative
approaches need to be postulated, so that political review and technical expert
systems can be used to develop the entire IWRM solution in an appropriate
number of stages. The implementation of the IWRM stages will require a flexible
time schedule, determined by the large number of parameters of the system, their
variability, and the need to develop new political and administrative links for the
approval and implementation of the solution. This makes the ingenuity and
Table 2. Inventorylflux comparisons -- approximate annual volumes
Q
Q
CI conc
Pop.
acre-ft yr-!
m3 yr.!
mgr!
Notes
Wastewater:
Hutchinson
40000
6300
7.8E+06
400
Nickerson
1000
100
1.2E+05
Great Bend
15000
1800
2.2E+06
370
Total
56000
8200
1.0E+07
Water use:
Mostly groundwater
HutchinsonNickerson Area
16000
2.0E+07
Northern
Stafford County
10 000
l.2E+07
Not incl. QNWR
Permian Saltwater
Inflow:
Northern
Stafford County
2400
2.9E+06
40000
QuiviraNWR
water right:
14600
1.8E+07
Surface water
3.2 The Decision.Making Process
The processes of data collection and creation of adequate databases have extended
over the last decade. During that time period, information was transferred among
the different institutions involved with the studies, the clients, and the state
agencies. Information was transferred through reports, individual contacts, shared
electronic databases, formal seminars, and occasional meetings. A wide variety of
solutions were proposed and considered for the specific problems of quantity
depletion and quality deterioration of water resources in GMD2 and GMD5.
However, no solutions practical for each of the GMDs individually could compete
with the severity of the problems_
The next phase was to look for an IWRM solution for both GMDs together,
considering them as a single unit. This raises the issues of defining an adequate
basic approach to a staged evaluation of the options and eventual development of
an optimal solution. It is simply not practical to consider that with current
scientific and management platforms and expert systems the optimal solution can
be directly obtained in a single stage of analysis and review. Alternative
approaches need to be postulated, so that political review and technical expert
systems can be used to develop the entire IWRM solution in an appropriate
number of stages. The implementation of the IWRM stages will require a flexible
time schedule, determined by the large number of parameters of the system, their
variability, and the need to develop new political and administrative links for the
approval and implementation of the solution. This makes the ingenuity and