Do We Need a National Water Policy Process: Preliminary Criteria for Designing a Constituency-Based Water Policy Structure

摘要

The nation appears to have neither an integrated water policy process nor an institutional support structure that can make it work. This paper addresses institutional barriers to national water policy. It concludes that administrators cannot govern integrated surface and groundwater systems that flow across political boundaries and affect a multitude of competing interests with a fragmented, inefficient policy guidance structure that encourages division rather than sharing of our water resources. This paper offers preliminary conceptual guidance on how to reexamine intergovernmental roles and relationships in the field of water policy. First priority must be given to the creation of a constituency for an integrated water policy process.