BOSTON — A regional coalition of watershed protection groups is putting pressure on the state to do a better job of managing water in light of population growth, The Boston Globe reported.
The Watershed Action Alliance of Southeastern Massachusetts has filed a position paper with the state Water Policy Task Force, urging the state to approve regulations to restore the health of the region's depleted drinking water sources, the article said.
''As the fastest growing region in the state, we need state leadership on improving our water management policies," Samantha Woods, executive director of the North & South Rivers Watershed Association, said in the article.
Although the region receives an average of about 45 inches of rainfall a year, more than enough to provide drinking water to its 1 million residents, mismanagement has led to environmental damage and frequent water shortages and usage restrictions in many communities, Woods told the paper.
Alliance members added in the article that ff the desalination plant proposed along the Taunton River in Dighton, MA, is constructed, the city of Brockton should be required to reduce the amount of water it pumps from local ponds and lakes, putting less burden on those water sources.
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