OBJECTIVES OF WATER QUALITY PLANNING

Planning is a sterile effort if it does not produce a viable procedure for reaching its objectives. Our political process is presently atuned to crisis reaction, producing short-range decisions and simplistic solutions to problems which often serve to confuse and delay the adoptions of hard viable solutions. The control of water quality is a noble objective in itself; however, the need for it is symptomatic of a much deeper and profound disease that must be cured or prevented before a completely successful water quality control program can be achieved. The disease is that of "living beyond our resource means." To overcome such a disease, the national objectives should be to: (1) Minimize natural resource waste; (2) protect the public health and ecosystems; (3) provide for a system of control that has a practical probability of being achieved; and (4) provide for a positive decision-making process that leads to the rapid consumation of the objectives previously stated.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the ASCE Specialty Conference on Planning for Water Quality Management, Ithaca, N.Y., June 26-28, 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398
• Authors:
  • Krause, K S
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 471-476
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Hydraulics Division
  • Volume: 101
  • Issue Number: HY3
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conservation; Decision making; Natural resources; Planning; Public health; Strategic planning; Water quality
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096116
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: ASCE 11200 Proc Paper
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 2 1975 12:00AM