RE: Criteria for policy effectiveness/success

[James Marple <James.Marple>]

A last comment, condensed from input of several geologists/engineers familiar with the huge new reservoir in Southern California:  

This facility would not have been built, could not have been justified, if the EPA and other agencies had done a better job of inviting public participation in its early stages, comments  that would have identified the most obvious alternative to it, providing for public water needs by capturing local rainfall. 

It was argued that the EPA "has no business interfering with water supply issue" but any thoughtful person understands that if proper attention had been paid to managing the rainfall of this region there would have been no need for building a reservoir that places fifty thousand people in harms way.