SUSTAINING OUR WATER RESOURCES -- Copyright -- AUTHORS OF PAPERS -- SYMPOSIUM CHAIR -- SYMPOSIUM COORDINATORS -- Other Recent Reports of the Water Science and Technology Board -- Contents -- Introductory Remarks -- 1 Intergenerational Fairness and Water Resources -- PRINCIPLES OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY AND WSTB ACTIVITIES -- INTERGENERATIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FORPOLICY -- REFERENCES -- 2 Landscapes, Commodities, and Ecosystems: The Relationship Between Policy and Science for American Rivers -- INTRODUCTION -- RIVERS AS LANDSCAPES -- RIVERS AS COMMODITIES -- RIVERS AS OBJECTS OF PRESERVATION -- SCIENCE FOR RIVER MANAGEMENT -- THE SCIENCE-POLICY CONNECTION FOR RIVERS -- AN INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN SCIENCE AND POLICY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX 2A -- APPENDIX 2B RIVERS IN THE U.S. WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS SYSTEM -- 3 Hydrologic Science: Keeping Pace with Changing Values and Perceptions -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EVOLUTION OF HYDROLOGY -- THE EVOLUTION OF HYDROLOGICAL RESEARCH -- THE EVOLUTION OF HYDROLOGICAL EDUCATION -- HYDROLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES -- REFERENCES -- 4 Changing Patterns of Water Resource Decision Making -- REFERENCES -- 5 Changing Water Resources Institutions -- THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- THE CONSTRUCTION ERA: 1900-1969 -- DEALING WITH LIMITS AND CHANGING VALUES -- INSTITUTIONS FOR BALANCING FUTURE WATER DEMANDS WITH SUPPLIES -- REFERENCES -- 6 Changing Concepts of System Management -- ABSTRACT -- CHANGING ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: NATURE IN BALANCE -- CHANGING ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS: INDIRECT EFFECTS -- MANAGING FOR CHANGE -- MANAGING FOR COMPLEXITY -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- 7 The Water Science and Technology Board: A Success Story of a Run Down the Rapids of Science Policy -- MULTIPLE PARADIGM SHIFT RAPIDS -- RAPID MILEPOST ONE: UNBALANCED NATURE.

RAPID MILEPOST TWO: MANAGING RATHER THAN POURING CONCRETE -- RAPID MILEPOST THREE: THE NEW ETHIC OF SUSTAINABILITY -- A LOOK AT FUTURE CANYONS AND RAPIDS -- REFERENCES -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Symposium Program -- Appendix B Biographical Sketches of Authors -- Appendix C WSTB Publications.