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Key Partners Suggested Roles <br />Metropolitan <br />Council <br />• Maintain and improve the Conservation Toolbox <br />• Partner with Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP) to <br />conduct water audits for industry and commerce <br />• Develop planning goals and metrics for assessing the wise use of <br />water and water efficiency <br />• Support a grant program for demand reduction <br />Communities/ • Connect key local water users, decision -makers with information to <br />Water Suppliers shape water use <br />• Adopt policies, ordinances and fee structures that promote the <br />water conservation <br />• Identify and implement demand reduction measures <br />l • Showcase projects <br />DNR <br />• Adopt and enforce policies to ensure permitted water users are <br />incorporating conservation practices in their operations <br />• Provide water conservation education through existing DNR <br />education programs <br />Others • Support water conservation efforts <br />Achievements (what successful achievement of this strategy might look like) <br />• Achievement of water conservation outcomes identified in Chapter 6 <br />• Agency partnerships enhance information about municipal, industrial and agricultural <br />conservation and reuse opportunities <br />• A grant program is initiated and supported to implement water conservation, reuse and/ <br />or cooperative water use practices <br />• Tools such as the Conservation Toolbox are developed, maintained and promoted <br />• Documented increase in water conservation awareness and implementation <br />• Evaluation of effectiveness of conservation best management practices for long-term <br />reductions and for emergency/contingency planning across different community <br />settings <br />Strategy 6: Investigate reusing treated wastewater <br />The Council will investigate reusing treated wastewater to supplement groundwater and surface water <br />as sources of nonpotable water to support regional growth, and when cost-effective, implement <br />reuse. <br />These efforts support the Council's policy on water conservation and reuse (Water Resources Policy <br />Plan). <br />A successful outcome of this work is that use of surface waters, reclaimed wastewater and <br />stormwater for appropriate water uses becomes an option explored by communities and implemented <br />by many. Chapter 6 provides more information. <br />WATER SUPPLY MASTER <br />PLAN- Draft June 2015 <br />