Many of our watersheds and their related wetland
ecosystems are currently damaged, water-starved and
often marginally functional. We may have to manage
for a reduced carrying capacity based upon those
stresses modified by what we can restore or modify
and how much water we think will be available. The
competition between man and wetland ecosystems
where minimum flows and levels must be maintained
will become elevated and at times political much like
the water management of the Kississimee-Lake
Okeechobee-Everglades (KLOE) ecosystem in south
Florida. At least temporarily during drought periods,
many regions like the KLOE ecosystem, sub-Saharan Africa,