Will the US ever have a National Water Policy?
An argument in favor of creating a more cohesive federal policies: A Water Strategy for the United States, an article by Jim Thebaut and Erik Webb. It’s formatted like a journal article, but it’s not clear to me whether it was accepted for publication anywhere or just appears on various blogs.
The United States faces water stress and potential water disasters.
The only hope we have of establishing effective and to the degree possible unified water policies is to develop a set of goals and principles for water management to which we progressively conform our policies and actions. The U.S. statement of goals and principles that underpin our international policies are more coherent than are the principles underpinning our domestic policies.
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Presently, at the federal level alone, 20 agencies and bureaus, under six cabinet departments, directed by 13 congressional committees with 23 subcommittees and five appropriations subcommittees are responsible for water-resource management.
Jim Thebaut is the writer, director and executive producer of public television’s “The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?” and “Running Dry,” a documentary about the global water crisis, and director of the Southern California-based nonprofit The Chronicles Group. Erik Webb is a PhD hydrologist at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico and a former Congressional Fellow with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Via Aquadoc Prof. Michael Campana