Whisnant Presentation to Golf Coalition
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Status report on Water Allocation Study in NC for the Golf Coalition Raleigh, NC August 9, 2010
- Perspectives for the Golf Coalition
- Frontlines industry: equity and conflict when water gets short
- In relation to agriculture in general
- Special knowledge and the wider policy perspective: water efficiency, beneficial stormwater use, water reuse
- General challenges for the state and the region
- Lack of cultural sophistication about water shortages; love of big deep greens
- The problem of episodic crises and policy change
- Fundamental rights and importance of water
- Status report
- Next steps
- Water Allocation Research Seminars
- Review of other states' and regions' approaches
- Discussion of work on pieces not yet addressed