Regional Water & Transportation Management Plans

WHEREAS Texas created regional water and transportation plans for development of urban areas and adjacent rural counties;

• Texas is the home of many experienced scientists and engineers in hydrogeology, transportation, and public health;
• General property tax revenue is a major source of funds for public institutions of higher learning, public transportation, and management of the public drinking water supply;
• Surface and underground drinking water supplies are commonly polluted with urban and industrial wastes, that were released into the surface water or injected underground;

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED THAT the Texas Democratic Party supports:

• Good management of the Regional Water and Transportation Plans to create and maintain high quality public health and protect the public drinking water supply in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
• Appropriate and high public health science standards for regulating both surface and underground drinking water supplies in urban, suburban, and rural areas.
• Green-space for parks, recreation, floodwater management, and wetlands protection.
• An environmental economic formula for water and transportation projects funded with public revenue, that includes an environmental assessment to protect public health as well as public funds.

3.5.06 Modification of the resolution passed by the Harris County Democratic Party June 2005, prepared y the Environmental initiative of the Houston Region Democrats