水务公司管理水资源问题的方式正在发生必要的变化。今天，水资源公用事业面临着与水质和供水相关的限制之外的限制。通过采访参与的公用事业公司，作者确定了一系列复杂的约束条件，包括法规、客户期望以及环境、政治和财务问题。公用事业公司报告称，在竞争激烈的市场中开发更好的产品的同时，平衡这些限制，迫使它们重新审视资源开发和管理的方式、时间、地点和原因。本文介绍了战略商业规划模型（SBPM），该模型旨在使公用事业公司能够整合公用事业公司内部和外部的水资源开发活动。 SBPM战略性地整合了水资源规划要素，并促进了整体资源方法的实施。该模型是一种迭代的长期方法，用于将所有效用元素整合到战略商业计划中，该计划组织了成功、商业化运作所需的内部和外部复杂性和相互关系。包括5个参考文献、图表。

The way water utilities manage water resource issues is changing out of necessity. Today, water utilities are faced with constraints beyond those associated with water quality and delivery. Through interviews with participating utilities, the authors identified a complex set of constraints including regulations, customer expectations, and environmental, political, and financial issues. Utilities reported that balancing these constraints while developing a better product in a competitive market is forcing them to reexamine how, when, where, and why resources are developed and managed. This article presents the Strategic Business Planning Model (SBPM) that was developed to enable utilities to integrate water resource development activities both within and outside the utility. The SBPM strategically integrates water resource planning elements and facilitates implementation of a holistic resource approach. The model is an iterative, long-term method for integrating all utility elements into a strategic business plan that organizes the internal and external intricacies and interrelationships necessary to operate in a successful, businesslike manner. Includes 5 references, figures.