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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
The long-range goals and objectives of the state of Kansas for management, conservation and development of the waters of the state, are hereby declared to be:
(a) The development, to meet the anticipated future needs of the people of the state, of sufficient supplies of water for beneficial purposes;
(b) the reduction of damaging floods and of losses resulting from floods;
(c) the protection and the improvement of the quality of the water supplies of the state;
(d) the sound management, both public and private, of the atmospheric, surface, and groundwater supplies of the state;
(e) the prevention of the waste of the water supplies of the state;
(f) the prevention of the pollution of the water supplies of the state;
(g) the efficient, economic distribution of the water supplies of the state;
(h) the sound coordination of the development of the water resources of the state with the development of the other resources of the state; and
(i) the protection of the public interest through the conservation of the water resources of the state in a technologically and economically feasible manner.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kansas Statutes Chapter 82A. Waters and Watercourses § 82a-927. State water plan; long-range goals - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ks/chapter-82a-waters-and-watercourses/ks-st-sect-82a-927/
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