mr. gleick: water is local, mostly. but the kinds of pricing issues we heard about comedy regionalization of small-scale water systems we have heard about -- water really is local. having said that, there are fundamental things that the u.s. needs to do at the fundamental -- at the federal level. i don't normally like to list things but i'm going to just to get the conversation going. mr. freedman: rick perry, peter. mr. gleick: what a sad comparison. i will try to do better than that. i have 11 things. we have to combine and streamline federal agencies. there should not be a department of water, i am not suggesting that. but we need to a better job at the federal level of integrating the activities of the federal agencies to deal with water. revive -- 2 -- we need to revive river basin commissions, and states that share rivers needs to work together to manage those across state boundaries. we need, third, a national water condition -- national water commission. there has not been a national water commission in the unit