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Water management has increasingly become a hot button issue in the United States and worldwide. Access, use, and conservation issues continually emerge as societies grow and change. A key aspect of the debate revolves around what water "is." Naming water as a mineral, as a public good, or as a commodity fundamentally changes its nature, shifting access among citizens, governments, and private firms. This essay discusses some of the issues, problems, and opportunities that emerge from these naming choices, while providing an overview of current water management practices.

Many in public administration hypothesize that public service motivation (PSM) has a direct positive impact on the attitudes and behaviors of public employees. However, there are inconsistencies in the PSM literature that challenge this hypothesis. This study sought to find out whether person-organization (P-O) fit can provide a reason for these inconsistencies. Specifically, this study explored whether the relationships among PSM, job satisfaction, and the turnover intentions of public employees were mediated by P-O fit. Using a sample of 205 employees drawn from three public organizations in the states of Oregon, Indiana, and Kentucky, this study found that PSM had no significant relationship to the job satisfaction and turnover intentions of public employees when P-O fit was considered. The implications of this study and areas of future research are discussed.

Highway tolling, an idea that lay dormant for many years, suddenly appears to be catching on. A combination of factors has helped to propel highway tolling into the mainstream. Growing transportation budget shortfalls have been keeping the tolling option front and center before governors, state legislatures, and state transportation officials. The U.S. Department of Transportation has been actively encouraging this posture. Private capital markets, especially institutional investors with long-term investment horizons such as pension funds, have discovered transportation infrastructure to be an attractive investment opportunity. In a May 2003 article titled "It's Time to Take a Fresh Look at Highway Tolls," this author speculated that tolls may assume a dominant role in the funding of new highway capacity, perhaps as early as the next decade. Five years later, that prediction is still on the mark.

Chiou and Rothenberg raise important questions about how to measure key concepts in the study of legislative stalemate in the U.S. Congress. In challenging my choice of measures to capture bicameral differences, Chiou and Rothenberg argue that my findings are the artifact of measurement error. In this reply, I review the hurdles involved in measuring policy views over time and across institutions and suggest that the preferred measure of Chiou and Rothenberg falls short for measuring bicameral differences. Second, I assess the extent to which measurement choices affect the robustness of my findings about the determinants of gridlock. Drawing on new measures and model specifications, I show that my results are robust to alternative specifications. I conclude with an assessment of the broader challenges posed by how we measure critical concepts in the study of congressional performance.

This report provides a description of solar energy and its uses in Argentina. In addition, it provides information about projects and legislation relating to renewable energy in Argentina.

This declaration announces that the developer of a hydroelectric plant will be responsible for restoring and replacing, for a minimum five-year period, the trees that are felled during construction.

Art. 241 through 250 legislate the access to locations for the exploitation of wind energy.

This decree outlines the basic regulatory framework to be applied throughout the national territory to encourage and regulate the development and investment in projects that exploit renewable sources of energy.