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About Us
District Background
 The Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District (District) was created by the Georgia General Assembly in 2001 to establish policy, create plans and promote intergovernmental coordination of all water issues in the District from a regional perspective. The Metro Water District includes sixteen counties and ninety-nine cities within the metro Atlanta region where over four million people, nearly half the population of the state, live.
With finite water resources and the population continuing to grow, the need to carefully and cooperatively manage and protect Metropolitan Atlanta's rivers and streams has become a priority. It is the primary purpose of the District to develop regional and watershed-specific plans for stormwater management, waste-water treatment, water supply, water conservation, and the general protection of water quality, which plans will be implemented by local governments. In the fall of 2003, the District approved three comprehensive water resource plans: 1) the District-wide Watershed Management Plan, 2) the Long-term Wastewater Management Plan and 3) the Water Supply and Water Conservation Management Plan. These plans will protect water quality and public water supplies in and downstream of the region, protect recreational values of the waters in and downstream of the region, and minimize potential adverse impacts of development on waters in and downstream of the region.
District Organization
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