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AMONG the terms of reference of the Central Advisory Water Committee was a consideration of what enactments, if any, were required to co-ordinate the various river interests, and the desirability of constituting new river authorities with responsibility for some or all of the functions now exercised by existing bodies. There were found*, on examination of the subject, a great many bodies each exercising limited control generally of one or other aspect of river water. Pollution, drainage, fisheries, inland navigation, tidal navigation, ports, water supply, sewage disposal, etc., each has for most rivers a separate supervising body. The complex administration for this diversity of closely interrelated problems has led the Committee to suggest means of more closely co-ordinating administrative control.
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RIVER CONTROL IN BRITAIN. Nature 152, 576–577 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152576c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152576c0