Volume 9 Issue 4 Fall 1969 Fall 1969 Scottish River Purification Boards Fred H. Hubbard Recommended Citation Fred H. Hubbard, Scottish River Purification Boards, 9 Nat. Resources J. 489 (1969). Available at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nrj/vol9/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Natural Resources Journal by an authorized editor of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. natural resources Iournal Published four times a year by The University of New Mexico School of Law VOL. 9 OCTOBER 1969 No. 4 SCOTTISH RIVER PURIFICATION BOARDS* FRED H. HUBBARDt I INTRODUCTION Arrangements for administering programs are fundamental to success in solving the problem of water pollution. Arrangements are, however, difficult to develop, particularly in modern urban set- tings involving large geographical spaces, complex hydrologic con- ditions, many people with different social and economic interests, and varied legal and political responsibilities. A large body of literature has been published in recent years calling attention to the significant role arrangements play in water management.' When an arrangement is developed that appears to achieve this difficult task, it is a matter of interest and worthy of examination for possible ap- plication elsewhere. Such an arrangement followed passage of British legislation in 1951 permitting the establishment of river purification boards in certain catchment basins of Scotland. This article, the result of a study of the Scottish effort, is based on information obtained from Scottish pollution control officials and other informative sources during September 1967-May 1968.