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water demand is needed to support economic growth, its related population, commercial, industrial, and public employment needs.
Could this result in an arrangement such as New York City has made with its watershed counties, only on a much smaller scale? New York City’s water supply system involves 19 reservoirs and controlled lakes in seven counties east and west of the Hudson River. The system supplies water to eight million people in the City, a million in four upstate counties, and millions of commuters, visitors, and tourists. In the early 1990s, New York City decided to protect these watersheds. The reason? It w-ould cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build new water filtration facilities.
To qualify for what is known as “filtration avoidance,” watersheds cannot be the source of any waterborne disease outbreak, must meet source water quality limits for coliform and turbidity, and meet a great number of other criteria, including identifying, monitoring, and controlling man-made and naturally occurring activities that
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