水是用于公共利益的资源还是可以买卖的自有商品？这场辩论已经激烈了多年。然而，在这段时间里，几乎没有什么变化。对新供水的需求变得越来越关键，而且没有一个统一的模型可以用来管理水资源。作者鼓励水行业抛弃旧的争论，找到一种新的模式，将对水的尊重与公平、高效地向所有用户——农业、工业和城市——提供服务的选项结合起来。本文提出了一种称为管理型管理的模式，作为进一步讨论的起点。 管理管理的特点是一个监管行政系统，平衡需求与长期公共利益，在流域基础上管理用水，保护值得信赖的水管理人员的河岸权利，加强保护，创造性地解决城乡水资源分配问题，以及立法和一致资金提供的支持。

Is water a resource to be used for public benefit or an owned commodity that can be bought and sold? The debate has raged for years. Yet, during that time, little has changed. The need for new water supplies is becoming more critical, and no uniform model that can be used to manage water resources exists. The author encourages the water industry to leave the old debate behind and find a new model that unites a respect for water with options for fair, efficient delivery to all users - agricultural, industrial, and urban. A model called managed stewardship is proposed as a jumping off point for further discussion. Managed stewardship is characterized by a regulatory administrative system that balances demand with long-term public interest, the management of water use on a watershed basis, the preservation of riparian rights for trustworthy water stewards, increased conservation, creative solutions to the urban-rural water allocation issue, and the support provided by legislation and consistent funding.