Sociohydrological Impacts of Water Conservation Under Anthropogenic Drought in Austin, TX (USA)

摘要: Municipal water providers increasingly respond to drought by implementing outdoor use restrictions reduce urban withdrawals and maintain availability. However, restricting support watershed-scale resilience may generate unanticipated cross-scale interactions, for example, altering response recovery in vegetation or streamflow. Despite this, conservation is rarely conceptualized modeled as endogenous the cycle. Here, we investigate interactions among availability, use, sociohydrological Austin, TX (USA) during a recent anthropogenic (human-influenced) drought. Multi-scalar statistical analyses demonstrated that reservoir management at municipal scale produced responses can cascade both ‘upwards' from city watershed (e.g., decoupling streamflow patterns upstream downstream of Austin scale) ‘downwards' exert heterogeneous effects within redistributing along socioeconomic gradient sub-municipal scales, with on terrestrial aquatic ecosystems). We suggest adapting through irrigation curtailment requires sustained engagement between hydrology social sciences integrate status political feedbacks irrigator groups into Findings this cross-disciplinary study highlight importance multi-scalar spatially-explicit perspectives sociohydrology research uncover how adaptation links hydrological processes issues inequality spatiotemporal Anthropocene.