Water Resource Protection and the Takings Issue

Abstract

Water is an essential resource for viable communities and is too often jeopardized by today's land uses. Protecting water resources is a challenge for planners and political leaders for a variety of reasons including the fact that, unlike land-use impacts like traffic counts, water pollution is more difficult to project, detect, and monitor. And water resources, including watersheds and aquifers, frequently require case-by-case definition and tailored regulations to protect them.