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The Water Science and Technology Board: A Success Story of a Run Down the Rapids of Science Policy
The Water Science and Technology Board: A Success Story of a Run Down the Rapids of Science Policy
Pages 92-102
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To complicate matters further, scientific understanding must be integrated into a complex, rapidly changing institutional framework. The WSTB has, in my limited National Research Council (NRC)
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Finally, the ethic of immediate consumption, which has guided natural resources policy, is changing. These shifts undermine the assumptions about water resources management that were put in place at the turn of the century during the progressive conservation era and were applied throughout the first six decades of this century (Reuse, 1992~.
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The National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council was created to render consensus scientific and technological advice to the federal government. The model is a committee of national or international experts who survey a field and issue a report that resolves a debate within a discipline about a specific, narrow "scientific question.
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The basic problem is that many modern water resources management decisions require scientific baselines of altered environments against which existing and contemplated human intervention can be evaluated. Science is increasingly criticized not
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Historically, the objective of water management was the development of a coordinated system of multiplepurpose reservoirs and associated water projects on all major river basins (Graf, 1992~. The idea of river basin development has been replaced with a more amorphous idea of river system management for a variety of social objectives; the most fundamental change is the idea that human uses of water resources and environmental protection and management should be given equal weight (Feldman, 1991~.
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The WSTB's report The Great Lakes Water Quality A~reement: An Evolving Instrument for Ecosystem Management (U.S. National Research Council and Royal Society of Canada, 1985)
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The WSTB has developed considerable credibility with its studies on ground water hydrology and ground water management, and this tradition will serve it well in the future as the use of this resource increases. The WSTB's work on the technical aspects of ground water models that can be used to aid in aquifer cleanups and other management issues is a model of the role that the WSTB can play in applying science to solving regulationdriven problems.
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The WSTB has carried out an important joint study with Canada, The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: An Evolving Instrument for Ecosystem Management (U.S. National Research Council and Royal Society of Canada, 1985~; has written a useful report, ldward Sustainability: Soil and Water Research Priorities for Developing Countries (NRC, l991d)
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First Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture. National Research Council, Water Science and Technology Board, Washington, D.C.
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U.S. National Research Council and Royal Society of Canada.
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