Whisnant presentation to SOG faculty

From Water Wiki

1.   Study background and approach 
   • Arose from conflict over proposed interbasin transfer to Concord and Kannapolis
   • Authorized by ensuing legislation that also further limited interbasin transfers
   • Background on the contract between the Environmental Review Commission (ERC) and the UNC School of Government, with sub-contract to Duke Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and its state policy director, Bill Holman
     
   • Varied consultation (stakeholders, experts, states, wiki) and methods (interviews, lit review, data analysis, legal analysis, economic analysis, scenarios, models)
   • Findings focus on key existing regulatory processes and scenarios that illustrate gaps and concerns
   • Reports and comments on the reports
2. Recommendations
3. Critical issues
   • Goals/overarching policies: public vs. private rights in water, instream flows
   • Model-based water budgets
   • Adaptive, proactive, basinwide planning process in overallocated basins
   • Withdrawal permitting
   • State attention to financial capacity and O&M needs of water providers
   • Integration of state and local water reports and data
4. Responses to study and report
   • Media
   • Legislation
   • Stakeholder meetings
   • Wiki
5. Whisnant and Holman presentation to joint committee meeting, NC House Committee on Water Resources and Committee on Environment and Natural Resources