Regional Water Management Plan

Note:  This is an old resolution that has been superceded by a new version.  See http://www.paa-tx.org/node/1495  

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT the Harris County Democratic Party supports:

• Good management of the Region H Water Plan and the Regional Transportation Plan to increase the quality of all human life and reuse and recycle limited water resources.
• Appropriate and high human life and health science-based standards for regulating both surface and underground drinking water supplies.
• Green-space for parks, recreation, floodwater management, and wetlands protection within the region.
• An environmental economic formula for water and transportation projects funded with public revenue, that includes an environmental assessment to protect public health as well as public funds.

FACTS TO SUPPORT THE RESOLUTION:

• Harris County, Texas is the third largest populated county in the United States with about 2 million voters and 3 million residents;
• The City of Houston is the 4th largest city in the United States; it is the home to the petrochemical industry, NASA, more than 16 institutions of higher learning and the largest medical complex in the world;
  
• The surface and near-surface groundwater in the Houston Region are polluted with urban and industrial chemicals and waste;
  
• The Houston Region is subject to natural geological ground subsidence and land subsidence increases with groundwater production;
  
• Special Subsidence Districts have been created to manage groundwater production within Harris, Galveston and Fort Bend counties;
  
• Regional water and transportation plans have been created for Harris and adjacent counties within the Houston Region.

ADOPTED 30 June 2005 by the Harris County Democratic Party