A Charlotte business group is asking members to “reach out” to legislators to stand up for the city’s ability to get another 30 million gallons of water a day from the Catawba River. The Real Estate and Building Industry Coalition is targeting the 17-month extension some House members are proposing to an existing moratorium on […]
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 […]
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 […]
