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Any watershed scale resource conflict has a political and a technical dimension. In my view neither will be resolved until there is a watershed scale natural resource accounting system constructed for the catchment; capable of linking surface and groundwater; and able to operate at a meaningful time step to support management decisions.

The accounting system must be capable of constructing scenarios to predict or estimate the impact of land use and infrastructure development; to support integrated catchment management and political decision making about who benefits and who pays.

The accounting system also should form the basis for the construction of more highly specified rights and entitlements to water access.