C: How it Works
Levels of Activity
Integrated Levels
The Global Water Circle supports the Continental Water Circles, and so on down to Municipal Water Circles.
Integration enables global cooperation and knowledge-sharing.
Distributed Power
This is not top-down government. The role of the higher level is to support the lower level, not govern it.
Higher levels facilitate cooperation where water ways cross boundaries.
Aligned Goals
Water provision is a practical problem with practical solutions.
Each level has the same goals: abundant clean water for human needs and endeavours.
No political conflict.
Ethical Duty
The new economics ensures that private interests will not be able to corrupt and circumvent our waters.
Success in water provision will depend on ethical, not financial, accomplishments.
Circles within Circles
Nested Circles
Each Circle has nested Circles which are touch-points with the other Circles.
In this example, the Food Circle contains a Land Circle touch-point. That same circle appears in the Land Circle as the Water Circle touch-point.
The Land Circle and the Food Circle work together on the provision of land for food production.
Distributed Expertise
The primary purpose of the Circles is to organize government and work.
The same staff may work in multiple circles depending on their expertise.
This will dismantle bureaucratic boundaries and improve the rationality, efficiency and effectiveness of government.
Mutual Responsibilities
Instead of unhealthy and destructive competition among public and private interests, Circles re-conceive activity as sets of mutually held responsibilities.
The Water Circle is responsible for water provision, water security and water health. The Food Circle is responsible for food production.
They intersect to ensure sufficient water for food production and to protect the integrity of water ways that may be impacted by food production.