Sunday, September 7, 2008

Rockefeller Foundation Releases Report on Arkansas Water

The Rockefeller Foundation just released a long awaited report called "Water Issues in Arkansas - An Unfinished Story." Here is a link to the page that includes the summary report and the full report by clicking here.

This has taken years of research and will be used as a piece for discussion and dialogue about water issues in Arkansas. Board Member Steve Wilson was one of the consultants on the project. Thank you Rockefeller Foundation!

It is interesting to note that the Foundation published a similar piece in 1982 called "Arkansas Water - Why Wait for the Crisis?" The introduction lamented that Arkansas did not have a comprehensive water policy and that it would be difficult to create such a policy because of "special interests." That is still the case 25 years later. Most of the recommendations in that report were not addressed by the legislature, so we have lots of work to do to convince our representatives that we really want something done now. This report is a valuable contribution to that process.

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