A Federal Act to Promote Integrated Water Management: Is the CZMA a Useful Model?

摘要

The federal government has both an interest in promoting more integrated management of the nation's waters and the ability to encourage and enable such management. Geographic and substantive fragmentation has long hobbled effective water management in the United States. More integrated management approaches, such as watershed planning and IWRM, can help overcome this fragmentation and, in the process, improve water management along multiple dimensions. Integrated water management, however, also faces significant political, administrative, and economic obstacles, which helps explain why it has not been adopted more widely.