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Water
Irrigation and water districts: the oldest continuously governed institutions in the state, and the leadership demands of allocating a resource under scarcity.
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The Year There Is Not Enough
A curtailment year is the test every ordinary year has been preparing for. What a board can do in it is narrow, and almost all of it depends on work done before the season…
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The Arrangement That Was Never Written
Informal understandings between water users have held for generations because everybody shared the same expectations. They cannot survive a party who was not present when they were made.
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Governing a Finite Resource
A water district board allocates something that cannot be increased, among neighbours, under rules established before anybody serving was born. Every leadership problem in this Library appears there at once.