Peter Petersen 15 hours ago Good evening. When I look at the different levels of leadership starting with the government  at the top, and working my way down to the management, I look at how the laws that were established by the government, how these laws that are enforced by the governance, and how these laws that are monitored by the management. I want to make a clear distinction between the definitions of these terms, look at how they differ among each other. Sometimes  literature often interchanges the terms, government and governance, even though they have different functions. With that concept being said, the different levels of leadership impacts how the water resources will be managed, particularly with the increased impact of the climate change on the hydrological cycle within the watershed like increased frequency of drought, and the growing population. in other words, water shortage is becoming more real everyday, and depending upon the type of leadership that is governing the area, it will face many challenges in providing water resources to the community long term. So it is important to understand that whatever the decision-making progress  is being used, it will have some impact down the road. If you have good government and good governance, you will have good management, and vise versa. Since the impact of climate change is only going to get worse, so the leadership needs to be understand the full picture starting with where water comes all way down to being distributed to the customers. Any disruption along this path will have its consequences and is it prepared to resolve the issue, particularly with water quality.

Published January 16, 2022 20:20 by Peter Petersen, Water chemist II (water quality) at Milwaukee Water Works (Retired 2021)