Water Resources Update

Universities Council on Water Resources

Issue No. 104: Summer, 1996

Integrated Resource Planning for Water Utilities

Table of Contents

Foreword            1

Austin's Integrated Water Resource Planning Process by Tony Gregg   2

Lessons Learned From Southern California's Integrated Resources Plan

by Dan Rodrigo 6

Integrated Planning's Conservation Component: What Water Managers Need to Know

by Amy L. Vickers 12

Challenges To Balancing Conservation With Supply In Integrated Resource Planning

by Denise M. Ruzicka 15

Problem Context and the Generation of Alternatives Within the Integrated Resources Planning Process by Faye Anderson and Benedykt Dziegielewski       19

Externalities and Integrated Resource Planning by Jeffrey L. Jordan 26

Avoided Cost: An Essential Concept For Integrated Resource Planning

by Janice A. Beecher     28

Integrated Resource Planning and Strategic Planning For Water Utilities

by Gerald Wexelbaum   36

Integrated Resource Planning and Incentive Regulation

by Patrick C. Mann   41

Stormwater Management In Integrated Resource Planning

by Greg Lindsey  46

Water Resources Coordination And Planning At The Federal Level: The Need For Integration

by Jeffrey P. Featherstone  52

Five Ways To Botch An Integrated Resource Planning Analysis