Top-Ranked Issues by Categories

  1. International Treaty Compliance
  2. Competing Water Demands: Ag v. M/I
    • Sustainable growth, including impacts of growth
    • Assessment of the current water resource regulatory system to meet water management needs of the 21st century
    • Impacts on water supply and quality resulting from conversion of agricultural lands to urban lands
    • Protecting agricultural and rural water supplies, considering economic constraints and competing uses
    • Conservation of agricultural water for additional agricultural use, urban use or for environmental purposes
  3. Alternative Water Supplies/Water Quality
    • Integrating water quality and water supply considerations
    • Watershed planning/source water protection
    • Sustainability and groundwater management
    • Desalination of seawater and brackish water
  4. Technical & Financial Resources
    • State participation
    • Potential funding sources for water supply
    • Retail customer water pricing
    • Incentives for planning implementation
    • Improving groundwater availability data
    • Education