Abstract
In recent years national water policy has continued to follow a path toward decentralization and greater reliance on nonstructural means for solving problems. Neither the Bush administration nor the Clinton administration have sought fundamental changes to general water policies that evolved at the federal level from the period of rapid change in the 1970's and the less volatile but still active period before 1988. Yet, significant changes have occurred through the federal appropriation process, executive decisions, and innovations at the state and local levels. Important changes have occurred in floodplain management strategies, water transfers and water banking, urban water use efficiency, and the distribution of financial burdens among federal, state and local governments. Major changes in surface and groundwater policies and management of public water supplies could occur in the spate of water and environmental policies that are up for reauthorization in 1995.
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