Pragmatism versus Potential: New Regionalism and Rural Drinking Water Management
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Abstract
This article proposes a new approach to managing drinking water at a regional scale, incorporating best practices related to regional development, new regionalism, regional resilience, water management, and sustainable infrastructure. The feasibility of the proposed approach was explored in two rural case study regions in Canada, where key informant interviews and focus groups were conducted with municipal, regional, and provincial officials. From a theoretical perspective, the proposed approach to managing drinking water has the potential to leverage the benefits of regionalism to address many existing challenges in rural drinking water systems by improving efficiencies, fostering collaboration, and helping to build regional resilience through an enhanced infrastructure foundation. We outline a variety of potential strategies to enhance rural drinking water systems using the proposed regional water management model. However, the appropriateness and feasibility of the approach in rural settings remains to be seen. The research reveals gaps among stakeholders in their understanding of drinking water systems generally, and further knowledge gaps associated with the potentials for the application of a regionalist approach more specifically, which hindered a more robust assessment of the approach in the case regions. The research adds to the discourse on rural regional development and provides in-depth case study findings on the potential application of regional development approaches in addressing infrastructure challenges in rural areas. Keywords: new regionalism; drinking water; rural Canada; watershed management ___________________________________________________ Pragmastisme contre Potentiel: Nouveau Régionalisme et Gestion de l'Eau Potable Rurale Résumé Cet article propose une nouvelle approche pour la gestion de l'eau potable à l'échelle régionale, incorporant les meilleures pratiques reliées au développement régional, un nouveau régionalisme, une adaptation régionale, une gestion des eaux et une infrastructure à long terme. La faisabilité de l'approche proposée a été explorée dans deux études de cas ruraux de régions du Canada, où des entrevues et des groupes de discussions d'informateurs clés furent menés avec des responsables municipaux, régionaux et provinciaux. D'un point de vue théorique, l'approche proposée pour gérer les eaux potables a le potentiel de faire un effet de levier sur les bénéfices de la régionalisation pour résoudre de nombreux défis dans les systèmes ruraux d'eau potable en améliorant l'efficacité, en favorisant la collaboration et en aidant à construire la solidité régionale via l'amélioration des fondations des infrastructures. Nous soulignons une variété de stratégies potentielles pour améliorer les systèmes ruraux d'eau potable en utilisant le modèle proposé de gestion régionale de l'eau. Toutefois, la pertinence et la faisabilité de l'approche dans un milieu rural restent à voir. Les recherches révèlent des écarts parmi les acteurs dans leur compréhension générale des systèmes d'eau potable et de plus gros écarts de connaissance associés aux potentiels d'application d'une approche régionaliste plus spécifiquement qui empêchent une évaluation plus solide de l'approche dans le cas des régions. La recherche ajoute au discours sur le développement rural et fournit des résultats approfondis à l'étude de cas sur le potentiel d'application des approches régionales de développement en relevant les défis d'infrastructure dans les zones rurales.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.045 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".