Doing Regional Water Security: A Guide to Contexts, Stages, and Steps in Democracies

Searches on the Internet show water insecurity exists and grows in developed and developing
democracies. A realistic way of obtaining and maintaining regional water security remains unknown.
Doing Regional Water Security explains a way to obtain water security.

To obtain security that is tailored to fit their regional water community, people think and act as water
stakeholders/voters in their community. They obtain input from other participants, namely guidance
from a facilitative/interdisciplinary leader, advice from discipline specialists, and assistance from support
staff. After identifying the contexts of water security, stakeholders/voters and other participants obtain
security by making decisions and taking actions in a sequence of stages and steps in the region and its
water problem-sheds. The process is complex and difficult. It requires time and persistence. Yet, security
can be obtained. Participants record lessons learned which are shared with people elsewhere who want
to pursue water security.

Various individuals and groups are likely to find the regional water security process useful. They include
people who experience or anticipate water insecurity; legislative bodies and executives which provide
needed legal authority and financial resources; water security practitioners; water technology and related
organizations; and nongovernmental environmental organizations. These entities exist within or
cross local, state/provincial, federal and/or national boundaries.

Water security researchers review lessons learned and conduct independent research on the regional
water security process. Graduate and undergraduate students learn and apply lessons learned and
research conclusions which they employ during their careers, thereby increasing future water security in
developed and developing democracies.