Toward strategic management of shale gas development: Regional, collective impacts on water resources
Highlights
► A planning-based, regional-scale approach is used to assess management of water resource impacts of deterministic events associated with shale gas drilling. ► Regional policy scenario analyses are used to assess collective impacts and their dependence on both natural and infrastructural characteristics. ► Specifically, water withdrawals and wastewater treatment in the Susquehanna River Basin of New York are examined. ► Regulating water withdrawals on the basis of stream size could provide environmental protection while minimizing the cost of oversight. ► Using private rather than public wastewater treatment facilities could achieve treatment goals while avoiding putting public systems at risk.
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Brian G. Rahm is a postdoctoral research associate with the New York State Water Resources Institute. He has previous experience as a climate change policy analyst in New Zealand, and is keen to bring a quantitative perspective to the confounding world of policy and management.
Susan J. Riha is a professor in the Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. In her role as Director of the New York State Water Resources Institute, she focuses on adaptation of water resource management to climate change and the impact of energy systems, including biomass production and shale gas, on water resources.