• Policy Category: Drinking Water
• State: Connecticut
• Date Implemented: 6/14/2018

06/14/2018

Outlines the Water Planning Council’s (representatives of four state agencies: Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, Office of Policy and Management, and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and the Department of Public Health) ability to implement the State Water Plan to manage water resources. States that “water is a public trust pursuant to Section 22a-15, in which the General Assembly has found and declared that there is a public trust in the air, water and other natural resource of the state of Connecticut and that each person is entitled to the protection, preservation and enhancement of the same.” 

• Action Agency(ies): Water Planning Council (Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, Office of Policy and Management, and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and the Department of Public Health)
• Policy Champions: Governor Malloy
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