GoalsCleanWater


 * Benefit Description for Clean Water**

Abundant clean water is essential to our region’s public health and economic vitality. We drink water, we eat fish that come from it, and we use it for agriculture, industry, and recreation. Clean water is essential for healthy ecosystems and the native plants and animals that rely on it. Population growth in our region has increased demand for clean water, while pollution related to population growth compromises our water supplies.

TLC envisions a Triangle Region in which the supply of and demand for clean water are balanced at levels that can be sustained for people, plants, and animals


 * Potential Goals**

X% of streams in the watersheds of reservoirs (define which) and significant aquatic habitat (defined in wildlife habitat) have well-managed buffers by Year Y. I think we should separate these- i.e. a goal for SNHA aquatic area and a goal for watershed of drinking water resovoirs

So we want a specific goal for UNCWI?

By Year Y, X% of land in critical water-supply watershed areas are [ undeveloped / forested / under conservation management ].


 * List items of interest**
 * Balanced supply and demand of drinking water
 * Tie stream buffers to aquatic wildlife habitat
 * recreation
 * All Triangle residents have access to clean water for various uses.
 * 303d – remove at least one from the list – hold the line – de we even want to touch this one? (JS) I'm not sure we should pursue this one. Too many factors outside of our control (point source, etc.) that may affect streams.
 * Streams meet Division of Water Quality use designations.
 * All important aquatic habitat sustained (eg, NHP designated aquatic ahbitat).
 * Sustain water quality for important critters. (I (george) think this is covered in the wildlife habitat goal).