Mission H2O is a stakeholder group of water suppliers and users – municipal, industrial, and agricultural. Our diverse membership is focused on collaborative solutions to water resource management. Mission H2O members joined together after the drought in the early 2000s to participate and aid in the development of the state water resources plan, as well as other state regulatory and legislative actions impacting water supply. Issues of importance to our members include regional water supply planning, water withdrawal permitting, protection of grandfathered surface water withdrawals, standards and guidance for surface water intake structures and related Clean Water Act Section 316(b) implementation, recognition of managed aquifer recharge within the Eastern Virginia Groundwater Management Area, species-related requirements that may affect water supply, and environmental justice and tribal consultation considerations in water withdrawal permitting.
Our goal is to find common ground, both from a policy and technical perspective, to support collective solutions to water resource management. For twenty years, Mission H2O’s diverse membership has been working towards a better framework to address and balance water supply-related issues, with a goal of ensuring sufficient, sustainable water resources for all users.
Mission H2O Virginia Coordinator – Andrea Wortzel
Goals and Initiatives
- Technically Sound and Balanced Standards for Surface Water Intake Structures.
- Aquifer Recharge and Groundwater Management in Eastern Virginia.
- Reasonable Resolution of Grandfathered Surface Water Withdrawal Concerns.
- Species-Related Developments Affecting Water Supply.
- Environmental Justice and Tribal Consultation in Water Permitting.
- Collaboration on Water Supply Management and Reporting.
Membership Benefits
- Access expertise.
- Stay informed.
- Build connections.
- Support sound planning.
- Shape policy.
