Tag: Charlotte Water

Chamber water report calls for regional planning

North Carolina’s water-resources planning has considerable strengths, but to keep it a plus factor in the state’s business-recruiting wars, officials need to bolster it, a new report from the NC Chamber contends. Among other things, planners need better data and to make it more widely available. That’s a problem because a key set of stream-flow […]

Written by on November 19, 2025

Charlotte, upstream communities at odds over the Catawba

There’s a water-rights battle shaping up in the Catawba River basin that may generate a push for legislative intervention during this year’s long session of the General Assembly. Charlotte’s water system is preparing to ask the state Environmental Management Commission to nearly double the maximum amount of water it can take from the Catawba without […]

Written by on January 17, 2025