the implementation of the different water projects is not necessarily coordinated across administrative bodies according to water availability in the river basins for example but rather work on a casebycase basis projects are improvised approved and financed without any water resource management strategy a significant obstacle to effective coordination in guatemala is the disconnection between topdown designed policies and their implementation the water specific cabinet gea is the line authority but many operational technical levels are neither managed nor assessed and therefore do not follow national policies but rather sublevel engineers technical recommendations