82a-927. State water plan; long-range goals. 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.
History: L. 1965, ch. 558, § 1; L. 1981, ch. 398, § 9; L. 1986, ch. 392, § 4; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
Chapter 82a - Waters And Watercourses
Article 9 - State Water Resource Planning
82a-901a Legislative declaration.
82a-902 State water resource planning act; definitions.
82a-907 State water resource planning act; considerations in formulation of state water plan.
82a-913 Same; statement of state costs.
82a-920 Same; projected costs of water management projects.
82a-922 Same; expenditures from appropriations for Kansas water office, procedure.
82a-923 State water plan; rules and regulations.
82a-924 Same; liberal construction.
82a-925 Same; invalidity of part.
82a-927 State water plan; long-range goals.
82a-928 State water plan; policies to achieve long-range goals listed.
82a-929 Same; state responsibility for water.
82a-930 Same; state responsibility to manage water conservation.
82a-931 Same; intergovernmental coordination of planning.
82a-932 Same; Kansas water office to negotiate with federal government, when.
82a-933 Same; providing evidence of need to include storage features.
82a-941 Same; agencies to perform research related to water resources.
82a-942 Same; United States powers not affected.
82a-943 Same; liberal construction of act.
82a-953a Transfers from state general fund to state water plan fund; reductions.