Water

Ensuring a reliable water supply is critical to our state’s long-term prosperity. Through strategic management, conservation measures, improved infrastructure and innovative policy solutions, we are helping to ensure Utah can keep up with increased growth.

In the past few years, progress made includes:

• Investing over $1 billion into water conservation and infrastructure efforts and continuing to build on those investments with smart water policies.
• Establishing a Water Agent and Water Council to guide statewide efforts, bringing enhanced coordination and planning to water management. 
• Passing legislation that paved the way for Compass Minerals, a private company, to donate 200,000 acre-feet of water rights annually to the state, equivalent to the combined volume of Causey, Echo, Pineview, Lost Creek and Rockport reservoirs. 

Thanks to a combination of strong policy efforts, public conservation and two plentiful water years, we are seeing improvement. These efforts help address Utah’s water challenges head-on, laying the groundwork to sustain our quality of life and support growth for the next 100 years and beyond.