Water Resources Management: The Myth, the Wicked, and the Future

摘要

"The willingness to look ahead,... at low-, medium-, and high-level population densities reveals an awareness of the increasing importance of water in the future; and of the necessity for the present generation to plan for the water needs of the next" (Balchin 1960).rnCurrent concerns about how change (climate, land-use, population, etc.) will strain our water resources systems could encourage the reader to dismiss Balchin's quote as an obvious cliche.