Institutions for Water Management in a Changing World

Abstract

Since the inception of the Conservation Movement in North America the legal and administrative arrangements for managing water resources have been given nearly as much consideration as the policies to guide water development and use.While initially the emphasis was upon law and organization structure, about 1950 the politics of water development and use began to receive an increasing amount of attention. 1This interest in the law, administration and politics of water resources has been prompted largely by a desire to strengthen the instruments we have used