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National Executive Organization for Water Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Gilbert P. White
Gilbert P. White
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Haverford College
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The central problem in national executive organization for water resources is that of fitting the service of specialized Federal agencies to the task of promoting the unified development of entire drainage basins. While technical recognition of the interlocking character of water resources development grew rapidly after 1920 and found expression in basin-wide plans, the administrative organization was unable to keep pace. It now presents conspicuous weaknesses which have been described by the Hoover Commission and its Task Force on Natural Resources. Remedial action involving the combination of several existing agencies and the creation of a central board of review have been recommended. An effort also has been initiated to correlate and reconcile the disperse and often conflicting Federal policies upon which the agencies are operating.

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Government and Water Resources
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American Political Science Review , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , September 1950 , pp. 593 - 607
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1950

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References

1 Reorganization of the Department of the Interior. A Report to the Congress by the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, March 1949 (Washington, 1949)Google Scholar; Organization and Policy in the Field of Natural Resources: A Report with Recommendations, Prepared for the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government (Washington, 1949)Google Scholar.

2 The temporary President's Water Resources Policy Commission was established by Executive Order No. 10095 on January 3, 1950. Its mandate is quoted in the introduction to this symposium.

3 The most recent descriptive summary of these concepts is to be found in the symposia on “The Integrated Development of River Basins,” Proceedings of the United Nations Scientific Conference on the Conservation and Utilization of Resources (Lake Success, 1950), Vol. 1, pp. 367–403Google Scholar.

4 Op. cit. pp. 149–182.

5 Dearing, Charles L. and Owen, Wilfred, National Transportation Policy (Washington, 1949), pp. 242–243Google Scholar.

6 Olds, Leland, New Concept of Rate Making for the Electric Industry, Annual Meeting of the American Public Power Association, May 9, 1946 (mimeographed), p. 11Google Scholar.

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