This Integrated Water Resources Strategy provides for better understanding and meeting Oregon’s instream and out-of-stream water needs, environmental and consumptive, including water quantity, water quality, and ecosystem needs. The Strategy concerns groundwater contamination and dry domestic well issues in several basins, increasing water scarcity that impacts people, species, and ecosystems, and statewide effects of climate change. Therefore, the Strategy defines three priority actions: 1) act with urgency to protect instream and out-of-stream uses; 2) assist the State and communities to prepare for water scarcity; 3) adapt to water scarcity by stretching our water supplies. Each priority area includes several task for the achievement of the goal of water security: reducing unauthorised water use and gaining compliance with other water laws; providing guidance for the reasonable use of water; increasing the use of and developing protections for priority waters and watersheds; expanding efforts to protect the quality of surface and groundwater sources of potable water; improving water permitting processes for transparency, efficiency, and effectiveness; increasing quality and accessibility of water availability and water use; modernising water data systems and website user interfaces to facilitate wider data sharing; increasing completed basin assessments, instream flow studies, and clean water plans; increasing community participation in water planning efforts; improving alignment of align land use planning with water resource goals; increasing the pace and scale of water reuse and aquifer storage, recovery and recharge projects that support resilience and protect the environment; increasing the number of water users that plan water conservation efforts; improving water right transfer processing times for lower risk transfers to facilitate the movement of water to high-priority use. The Strategy describes four objectives: 1) understanding Oregon's water resources; 2) understanding instream and out-of-stream water needs; 3) understanding issues and pressures that affect water needs and supplies, including: climate change impacts to aquatic species and their habitats, wetlands, forests, coastal systems, agriculture, water rights; natural hazards; land use planning; water used for energy purposes; water infrastructure; education; 4) actions for Oregon's instream and out-of-stream water needs, including: water planning; water use management; healthy ecosystems; clean water; funding.
Соединенные Штаты Америки · 2025-09-01