The importance of water has been an active issue for the League of Women Voters since they first studied it (1956-1958) and adopted a position on it.
The League's position has two prongs: Environmental Protection and Pollution Control and Water Resources.
• Support the preservation of the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of the ecosystem and maximum protection of public health and the environment.
• Water Resources. Support measures to reduce pollution in order to protect surface water, groundwater, and drinking water, and set up a process to evaluate inter-basin water transfers.
Water is an urgent concern to many Texans due to the trend of rapidly depleting lakes and aquifers in the state and a history of extreme drought.