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Statewide Water Resources Planning A Nine-State Study

Prepared for TACIR by Mary R. English, Ph.D., and Roy Arthur Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Statewide Water Resources Planning A Nine-State Study. Why Statewide Water Supply Planning is Needed. Serving the unserved Preparing for growth

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Statewide Water Resources Planning A Nine-State Study

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  1. Prepared for TACIRby Mary R. English, Ph.D., and Roy ArthurInstitute for a Secure and Sustainable EnvironmentUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxville Statewide Water Resources PlanningA Nine-State Study

  2. Why Statewide Water Supply Planning is Needed • Serving the unserved • Preparing for growth • Balancing uses and needs All but one contiguous state engages in planning.

  3. WestVirginia Pennsylvania Virginia Tennessee NorthCarolina Georgia SouthCarolina Florida Texas

  4. Planning in Other States Widely Shared Features: • Short-term and long-term planning • Watershed-based planning • Planning for both groundwater and surface water • Water allocation strategies only after extensive planning

  5. Planning in Other States Other Basic Features: • Legislatively mandated planning? • Locus of planning—central, regional, local? • Broad participation? • Gathering data—before or during?

  6. Planning in Other States Forward-thinking Features: • Critical areas planning • Conjunctive management • Linking quantity and quality • Conservation and efficiency

  7. Planning Cousins • Registering/permitting large water withdrawals • Regulating inter-basin transfers

  8. Complicating Factors • The federal role in managing some state waters • Other states’ claims on interstate water resources

  9. Water Rights Law • Surface water • Riparian rights—right to natural flow • Appropriative rights—first in time, first in right • Regulated riparianism—reasonable/beneficial use doctrine • Groundwater • Absolute dominion—unlimited withdrawal • Reasonable use—on overlying land and non-injurious to other landowners

  10. Implications for Tennessee • Strengths to build on • The basics—registering withdrawals, regulating transfers, water resources advisory committee—are in place. • The pilots were selected based on vulnerability. • Room for improvement • Integrating quality and quantity • Watershed-based approach

  11. “At this juncture in Tennessee, the future direction of statewide water resource planning is not fully set. Tennessee needs to tailor its own approach, mindful of its own laws, water resources, and water needs. Much can be learned, however, from other states that are further underway with integrated water resources planning.”Mary R. English & Roy Arthur

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