Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel

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Sneegas, Gretchen; Seghezzo, Lucas; Brannstrom, Christian; Jepson, Wendy; Eckstein, Gabriel
Año de publicación
2022
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Israel has set ambitious goals in terms of the widespread adoption of desalination and water recycling technologies. Policymakers in Israel consider these technologies as the key to improve urban water security but knowledge of stakeholder views on this policy approach is not well established. We deployed the Q-methodology, a qualitative-quantitative approach, to empirically determine social perspectives on desalination and water recycling across a wide range of stakeholders in the Israeli water sector. We identified the following four distinctive social perspectives: (1) desalination should be the option of last resort; (2) desalination is moving us to an infinite resource; (3) equating savings to resources is a dangerous illusion; and (4) desalination is (risky) electric water. A common characteristic of these perspectives is the belief that desalination is necessary for a water-secure country, but desalination should not be the only source of drinking water in Israel. Our findings indicate that Israeli stakeholders show complex and contingent understandings of the pros and cons of desalination and water recycling and the risks involved in too much reliance on a limited number of water sources. We discuss the potential implications of our findings for water management and security in Israel and other places with water scarcity concerns.
Fil: Sneegas, Gretchen. University of Washington; Estados Unidos
Fil: Seghezzo, Lucas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional; Argentina
Fil: Brannstrom, Christian. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Jepson, Wendy. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Eckstein, Gabriel. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
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DESALINATION
ISRAEL
Q-METHODOLOGY
SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
WATER POLICY
WATER RECYCLING
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
title Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
spellingShingle Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
Sneegas, Gretchen
DESALINATION
ISRAEL
Q-METHODOLOGY
SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
WATER POLICY
WATER RECYCLING
title_short Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
title_full Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
title_fullStr Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
title_full_unstemmed Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
title_sort Do not put all your eggs in one basket: social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Sneegas, Gretchen
Seghezzo, Lucas
Brannstrom, Christian
Jepson, Wendy
Eckstein, Gabriel
author Sneegas, Gretchen
author_facet Sneegas, Gretchen
Seghezzo, Lucas
Brannstrom, Christian
Jepson, Wendy
Eckstein, Gabriel
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Brannstrom, Christian
Jepson, Wendy
Eckstein, Gabriel
author2_role author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv DESALINATION
ISRAEL
Q-METHODOLOGY
SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
WATER POLICY
WATER RECYCLING
topic DESALINATION
ISRAEL
Q-METHODOLOGY
SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES
WATER POLICY
WATER RECYCLING
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.7
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Israel has set ambitious goals in terms of the widespread adoption of desalination and water recycling technologies. Policymakers in Israel consider these technologies as the key to improve urban water security but knowledge of stakeholder views on this policy approach is not well established. We deployed the Q-methodology, a qualitative-quantitative approach, to empirically determine social perspectives on desalination and water recycling across a wide range of stakeholders in the Israeli water sector. We identified the following four distinctive social perspectives: (1) desalination should be the option of last resort; (2) desalination is moving us to an infinite resource; (3) equating savings to resources is a dangerous illusion; and (4) desalination is (risky) electric water. A common characteristic of these perspectives is the belief that desalination is necessary for a water-secure country, but desalination should not be the only source of drinking water in Israel. Our findings indicate that Israeli stakeholders show complex and contingent understandings of the pros and cons of desalination and water recycling and the risks involved in too much reliance on a limited number of water sources. We discuss the potential implications of our findings for water management and security in Israel and other places with water scarcity concerns.
Fil: Sneegas, Gretchen. University of Washington; Estados Unidos
Fil: Seghezzo, Lucas. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Salta. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional. Universidad Nacional de Salta. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Física. Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía no Convencional; Argentina
Fil: Brannstrom, Christian. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Jepson, Wendy. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
Fil: Eckstein, Gabriel. Texas A&M University; Estados Unidos
description Israel has set ambitious goals in terms of the widespread adoption of desalination and water recycling technologies. Policymakers in Israel consider these technologies as the key to improve urban water security but knowledge of stakeholder views on this policy approach is not well established. We deployed the Q-methodology, a qualitative-quantitative approach, to empirically determine social perspectives on desalination and water recycling across a wide range of stakeholders in the Israeli water sector. We identified the following four distinctive social perspectives: (1) desalination should be the option of last resort; (2) desalination is moving us to an infinite resource; (3) equating savings to resources is a dangerous illusion; and (4) desalination is (risky) electric water. A common characteristic of these perspectives is the belief that desalination is necessary for a water-secure country, but desalination should not be the only source of drinking water in Israel. Our findings indicate that Israeli stakeholders show complex and contingent understandings of the pros and cons of desalination and water recycling and the risks involved in too much reliance on a limited number of water sources. We discuss the potential implications of our findings for water management and security in Israel and other places with water scarcity concerns.
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