Fragmentation, calcified in the media-specific nature of federal and state statutes, in the silo-by-silo regulatory approach of environmental and natural resource agencies, and in the arbitrary jurisdictional fiefs that begin in the committee structure of the U.S. Congress and radiate out through the budgets and missions of agencies, has long been the bane of sound environmental policy.

Fragmentation poses a major challenge to effective water management in the United States. The CZMA provides a potential model for national legislation promoting more-integrated water management by the states. The federal government has a strong interest in effective management. Poor water planning in one state can impact national water needs, the water management of neighboring states, and national economic markets.

This Article argues that addressing corporate sustainability by putting the onus on corporations to assess the sustainability of their operations may get the solution exactly backwards, at least at this early stage in advancing sustainability.