ABSTRACT
Once river regulation facilities have been constructed or other water development undertaken, the problems of administrative organization are far from diminishing. In a sense they have only begun. Major construction may be completed within a decade. The need for operational management of the dams, locks, levees, canals, generators, transmission lines, and other works installed may last for forty or fifty years, or even longer. The forms of operational management influence the planning and development administration, and they should be kept in mind by the planning and development agencies, whatever they may be. Technical advance has presented certain opportunities for the organization of operational management of water control and related facilities, and it also has brought some interesting, if not serious, problems for governmental and private administration in this country. The nature of these problems and opportunities is the subject of this chapter.
