She has also laboured to settle disputes over waterallocation in the agricultural eastern half of the state, and to resolve fights over unemployment insurance.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the ??United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation?. The objective of this International Year is to raise awareness on the potential for increased cooperation, and on the challenges facing water management in light of the increase in demand for water access, allocation and services.
Economists would generally argue that price is the right way (although with caveats, pure price allocation of drinking water in a drought might raise hackles) to do that rationing.