ABSTRACT
Water is already the greatest resource issue in cities around the world. Yet historically, especially in the United States, water resources management has been the purview of engineers. Further complicating water resources planning is that water eschews all political boundaries, while encompassing such diverse areas of concern as water quality, drought and supply concerns, stormwater management, greywater management and reuse, flood risk, and water rights. Top-down, dominant agency strategies have not been as effective as initially hoped. Rather, water policy-makers and planners addressing water provision and water quality issues need a more malleable structure tailored to a problem-shed perspective that involves all of the stakeholders, if possible. This chapter discusses how to prepare planners for the complex challenges of water provision and water resources management.
