209Water Resources
exible water resource systems. Such strategies include improved hydrologic
analyses procedures; monitoring of current trends; basin-wide integrated
water management; exible institutions and enhanced inter-agency and
international cooperation; improved mediation procedures to resolve com-
petitive water use issues; improved water conservation strategies; realistic
water pricing policies; and more responsive legal and institutional frame-
works to deal with future change.
The fragmentation of water resource missions and budgets among various
agencies can lead to decisions and plans that are optimum for one agency’s
mission, but not for the nation.
Centralized planning and control should not be the goal, but centralized
policies ...