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Work on Comprehensive Water Plan Progresses
Your Update from Ron Hays of RON for Tuesday June 9, 2009 A service of Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, Midwest Farm Shows and KIS Futures!
The work on a comprehensive water plan for the next 50 years continues in Oklahoma, with the third of a five step process happening here in the summer and fall of 2009. This past Thursday, a series of workshops were conducted in Oklahoma City, each dealing with a specific question related to a fifty year water plan for the state.
To get to this point- during 2007, 42 local input meetings were held to gather citizens' ideas, concerns, questions and suggestions about water resource management in Oklahoma. In 2008, 368 citizens were invited to help us determine which of the issues raised in the local meetings should continue to be discussed in the planning process.
Now, development of management strategies is the purpose of the three planning workshops scheduled here in 2009. With one of these meetings now completed, the second set of workshops will happen in August, and the final examination will occur by the teams on the various questions in October.
We talked yesterday with Scott Dewald of the Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association, who was one of the workshop participants this past week. You can click on our webstory below for more on the process- and hear our conversation with Scott about how the water planning is going- and what he sees as fundamental points that need to be achieved for agriculture to be satisfied with the outcome.
Click here for more on the Comprehensive Water Planning Process from an Ag Perspective
