In his new book Chasing Water
- Insufficient Financial Capacity
If the government is not generating enough money from taxes or other means to meet these needs, or if the government simply is not allocating enough of its resources to the governing of water, water allocation and management systems are almost certain to fail.
- Lack of Expertise
The best-run water agencies in the world possess most or all of this expertise, employ hundreds of staff members, and operate with multi-million dollar budgets. But possessing such capacity is the exception and not the rule.
- Lack of Will to Enforce Rules
Enforcement of rules is almost always the weakest link in any system for managing water.
- Lack of Coordination among Authorities
[I]t is very easy for different governmental departments to become isolated into “silos” that do not communicate or coordinate well with each other.
- Too Much Corruption
Which of these problems does your community suffer from?