They are concerned with forming appropriate organizations and getting the active cooperation and participation of existing organizations. Essential to a program for action and organization for administering a program will be recognition and effective adjustment of institutional factors affecting resource use. These factors include existing and proposed laws and statutes, organizations which control water, governmental agencies, commodity markets, customary farming practices, etc. These are institutions which are related to the action or adjustment that must be taken. They are critical to further development of the Valley.
Institutions represent established arrangements in society and established ways of doing things.
They Involve rules which prescribe our individual rights and conduct in groups or society. Some institutions have more significance than others, but each institutional factor usually plays an important role in guiding human behavior. Each institution is a part of our social organization, and each is subject to modification as conditions dictate. A broad institutional framework always affects man's use of natural resources. Contained within this broad framework are such things as the role our cultural environment and social forces D lay in influencing the behavior of individuals, groups, or communities Also included are cultural attitudes, customs and traditions, habitual thoughts or practices, legal arrangements, government activities, religion, and other similar factors.