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Highlights: What success looks like <br />The Twin Cities metropolitan area Master Water Supply Plan lays out the following strategies to achieve <br />sustainable water supplies: <br />Funding for <br />regional and Collaboration <br />local programs <br />Technical <br />investigations <br />Water <br />Planning conservation, <br />efficiency, reuse <br />• • • • • <br />Figure 7. Master Plan strategies: funding; collaboration; technical investigations; planning; and water efficiency and reuse. <br />The Council was given new water supply planning responsibility in 2005 (Minn. Stat. 473.1565) but was <br />not given dedicated funding to support that work. Instead the Council uses several sources to fund its <br />various water supply activities. <br />The primary source of funding for the past 10 years has been the Clean Water Fund (CWF), which <br />supports two Metropolitan Council programs that increase communities' implementation of projects to <br />help achieve sustainable water supplies: <br />1. Water demand reduction grant <br />program: Providing grants for <br />communities to implement water <br />demand reduction measures to ensure <br />the reliability and protecting of drinking <br />water supplies (Figure 9). <br />2. Metropolitan area water supply <br />sustainability support: Implementing <br />projects that address emerging drinking <br />water supply threats, provide cost- <br />effective regional solutions, leverage <br />inter -jurisdictional coordination, support <br />local implementation of water supply <br />reliability projects, and prevent <br />degradation of groundwater. <br />il <br />■ Grant <br />Program <br />s Sustainability <br />Support <br />Figure 8. Council Clean Water Fund appropriation history. <br />CWF, however, cannot be used for the following water supply -related planning activities: <br />• Review of local water supply plans, comprehensive plan updates and amendments, or wellhead <br />protection plans <br />• Technical support for communities in developing local plans <br />• Coordination and support for MAWSAC, TAC, or subregional water supply work groups <br />• Coordination and development of the Master Plan <br />Therefore, planning work has been funded through limited Council funds. For a brief time (2015-2016), <br />the state general fund supported plan development and stakeholder engagement for the 2015 Master <br />Plan and related Water Resources Policy Plan updates. <br />While wastewater rates revenue is not used for water supply planning activities — this source is restricted <br />for use on activities directly tied to wastewater utility operation — this source does support work such as <br />reuse investigations, which indirectly support the water supply sustainability of the region. <br />Page - 18 I METROPOLITAN COUNCIL <br />