Land-use planning instruments guide development, significantly affecting future water
demands. Hence, land-use and water-service planning should be integrated. However,
water availability issues in urban areas might indicate that this integration is not happening.
To evaluate the integration among planning instruments, we propose a set of indicators to
quantify the magnitude of the integration and an appraisal framework for exploring the
possible causes of a lack of integration. We apply them to eight settlements in Chile, and we …