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<br />The financial support for informal water management organizations <br /> <br />generally comes from member assessments or dues. However, some very loose <br /> <br />affiliations may have no budget, and rely instead upon the contributed services <br />of members in lieu of staff services. <br /> <br />Ability to Resolve River Basin Issues <br /> <br />Informal or ad hoc committees, commissions and associations concerned <br /> <br /> <br />with river basin management, regardless of their activities, almost never <br /> <br /> <br />attempt to bind members to their decisions or recommendations. They instead <br /> <br /> <br />rely on individual members to implement any adopted or recommended policies <br /> <br /> <br />with the same cooperative spirit that formed the organization. This is both <br /> <br /> <br />their strength and weakness. <br /> <br />The non-binding nature of informal water management organizations can <br /> <br /> <br />make them good discussion forums for airing river basin issues, since no member <br /> <br /> <br />need fear an opposing view will "carry the day" and bind his action. On the <br /> <br /> <br />other hand, there is little incentive to reach a definite decision on a given <br /> <br /> <br />issue, since it would be non-binding in any case. These informal organizations <br /> <br /> <br />are therefore best, it would seem, when river basin issues need to be aired or <br /> <br /> <br />clarified, but not necessarily resolved. <br /> <br />B. Uniform State Legislation and Formal Interstate River Basin Commissions <br /> <br />Characteristics <br /> <br />Uniform legislation among states has been used in at least one instance <br /> <br />-10- <br />