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<br />"To manage on a watershed level (or some even more embracing ecological level) may call for
<br />more centralized administration. Bigger governance units seem to imply bigger government.
<br />Yet at the same time we have been experiencing strong desires along a broad spectrum for more
<br />local autonomy. Oddly enough, localism has been a rallying call both for political conservatives
<br />and for important elements of the environmental community. And localism. . . is central to
<br />riparian/communitarian ideology. . . . To be sure, between pure localism and total centralization
<br />of authority there is a wide range of intermediate choices." Sax, Joseph L., "Issues in the
<br />Watershed Management Movement," in Watershed Management: A New Governance Trend,
<br />American Bar Association, Section on Environment, Energy and Resources, 19th Annual Water
<br />Law Conference, pp. 3,4, February 15-16,2001.
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<br />One author has even advocated jointly managing and sharing the entire global hydrologic cycle.
<br />See, McCaffrey, Stephen C., "Water, Water Everywhere, But Too Few Drops to Drink: The
<br />Coming Fresh Water Crisis and International Environmental Law," 28 Denver Journal of
<br />International Law and Policy 325 (Summer 2000).
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<br />123 See, DuMars, Christina Bruff, ChaIres T. Dumars, David Seeley , "Water Management in the
<br />American West and the Bureau of Reclamation's Role; Water Manager or Water Provider?" 4
<br />Western Water Law & Policy Reporter 213 (June 2000). In the Bureau of Reclamation's
<br />publication Resource Stewardship (April 2000), the Bureau's mission was said to be "to manage,
<br />develop, and protect water and related resources in an environmentally and economically sound
<br />manner in the interest of the American public."
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<br />124 See, DuMars, Christina Bruff, Charles T. Dumars, David Seeley, "International Water Law:
<br />The Movement from Development to Management and a Renewed Look at United States'
<br />Western Water Law Principles, 5 Western Water Law & Policy Reporter 61 (January 2001). "In
<br />the area of surface waters, the shorthand names for the attempts to move beyond water
<br />development to water resource management include words such as 'watershed management,'
<br />'regional water planning' and the like. There has been some success in this arena, but the issues
<br />are complicated by existing demands on over-appropriated intrastate and international stream
<br />systems."
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<br />125 See Dellapenna, supra, note 104, at 40-41; "Under the community of property model, a
<br />water basin is jointly developed and managed as a unit without regard to international borders
<br />and with an agreed sharing of the benefits of, and equitable participation in, such development
<br />and management."
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<br />126 Fifth Report to the U.S. President and Congress, December 2001, p. 9. The Good Neighbor
<br />Environmental Board is an independent Federal Advisory Committee whose mission is to advise
<br />the President and Congress regarding the relationship with Mexico along the Mexican Border.
<br />Its administrative support is provided by the Environmental Protection Agency.
<br />http://www.epa.gov/ocempage/gneb/english200Igneb.pdf. See, pp 10, 12 and 14-18,21. 64-66
<br />of the report.
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