Objectives of Water Heritage Trust
- Restoring in-stream flow in water courses depleted through diversions, thus restoring natural systems.
- Increasing flows in existing streams and wetlands, especially in the summer months, to maintain cooler temperatures that are beneficial to fish and wildlife, and which also enhance recreational uses.
- Maintaining water quality so that streams and wetlands are healthy habitats for fish, wildlife, and human recreational activities.
- Protecting human health by increasing flows when appropriate to assimilate waste from cities and towns along streams and rivers.
- Carefully maintaining farm productivity when water application to cropland is altered.
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