I think how you define “well” is an interesting question.
Other governments have been driven by crisis to take different approaches. In the struggles around jurisdictions in the United States, states with their own approaches to water management that didn't always work well together were recently spurred to work well together when the federal government threatened to intervene and override their state jurisdiction. It points to a system that probably doesn't do a very good job of conserving, managing and leveraging the water that it has.
We watch a lot, with interest, what happens in Australia. Again, their agriculture sector has been significantly impacted by water use policy there, a water use policy driven by a crisis or the threat of a crisis—