PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES

> Performance Challenges

In the past three decades, communities in Middle America

have had to contend with a cluster of performance challenges

for their water resource infrastructures:

• Effective management of the business

  side of water resource systems and districts has become

  increasingly challenging.

• Technical staffs have become much more

  difficult to recruit and retain.

• Regulatory burdens have mushroomed.

• Cost pressures on local governments

  and agencies are greater today than they have ever been.

• Outside funding support has continued

  to shrink.