Essay - Public Management and Administration of Water Scarcity Scenario Question: the...

Public Management and Administration of Water Scarcity Scenario

Question: The year is 2015. You are a successful upper manager at an important federal agency. The President and Congress have become concerned about scarcity of potable w*****er in the United States. (Water levels in lakes, reservoirs, and rivers have been dropping steadily, perhaps as a result of climate changes.) Because ***** the faith the ***** and ***** have in you, you have been confirmed as the head of a new but relatively small ***** to address th***** *****reat. In an unusual move, ***** are given adequate funding and a free h*****nd in designing this new agency. What do you want this agency to look like? How big would it be? ***** kind of organizational design would you want? How will ***** behave?

***** a purely knowledge-oriented perspective, the current drought may be due to a v*****riety of causal factors, including climate shifts, poor conservation, or a contamination ***** such factors. The origins water sacristy, after all, ********** varies from region to region within the nation, although the causes will likely be holistic in nature, and require a national initiative on a variety of levels, to reduce, for instance, ***** consumption of fossil fuels that create the greenhouse effect. As early as 2004, in Scientific American, Peter Glieck stated that a study of chemical emissions ***** the earth's atmosphere "concluded ***** with a high degree of confidence that global ***** is going to change. *****re's a very strong consensus in the scientific community now that climate change is a real problem—that it's com*****g." (*****, cited by Brad Kloza, 2004)

***** ***** 2015 scenario, very clearly climate change ***** more than 'coming'—it has come. Of course, even under ideal circumstances, "nothing we can do to prevent some climate change ***** occurring," and climate ***** are an international as well as a n*****tional phenomenon, although *****, in this case, must *****gin at home. "But in addition the assessment *****, as has much ***** the ***** community," there was a consensus as early as the 20th century th***** the earth had already seen evidence of global warming and that ***** global warming, combined ***** an escalating population *****d ********** of water in all areas of the nation was "already having an impact on the ***** resources ***** the United States." In 2001, Peter Glieck stated "we're already seeing changes in the timing of runoff, we're seeing changes in temperature and increases in sea level, we're seeing ***** in storm patterns in the U.S. The ********** is climate change is a real th*****g, and we're not prepared to deal with it." (Glieck, cited ***** Brad *****, 2004)

Thus, on a level of comprehension, clearly there is a drought, and the reasons ***** ***** drought ***** first be determined, although one of the most likely causes ***** global warming. Once ***** specific reasons for the potential and existing water shortages are *****, *****se reasons must be addressed, from global ***** to the other exacerbating factors. It should