In A Federal Act to Promote Integrated Water Management: Is the CZMA a Useful Model?, Prof. Barton Thompson addresses the significant challenge of substantive and geographic fragmentation in water management. He proposes using the characteristics of the Coastal Zone Management Act as a blueprint for greater integration of water management across the United States. This approach has promise; but the laws, interests, economics, politics, and practice surrounding freshwater are sufficiently dissimilar from those facing coastal management to raise questions as to its likelihood of success.