She's off in the wilds of Kenya studying common pool resources and how they are allocated. An article on the Freakonomics blog talks about addressing the water needs of the developing world and how throwing money at developing water resources isn't enough. An excerpt:
"Effective water management requires good institutions — i.e., a framework for the formation and enforcement of local rules and norms that will deliver safe and sustainable local supplies. After all, how useful is a well without a means of allocating its water or maintaining its flow? How safe are pipes when they carry water of unknown quality? How sustainable is supply from an overdrafted aquifer?"She faces the challenge of how and what to measure when gauging the state of the system. Apologies I can't phrase it as well as she could. The full text of the article can be found here.
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