For more than 25 years, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) has brought together leaders from across the state to advance our mission of transforming the economy of Indiana in order to create a sustainable prosperity and quality of life for our citizens and future generations. To further our mission, CICP has largely focused on supporting the growth of Indiana’s advanced industries and the thousands of Hoosiers they employ. Indiana’s advanced industries—advanced manufacturing and logistics, agbiosciences, life sciences, and tech—have been the source of increased investment in recent years.
As we look ahead to the future and a growing and changing economy, it is important that we take a refreshed look at what policies, tools and best practices might be necessary to ensure we have the resources we rely on to realize these opportunities. This is particularly so with regard to water.
Situated between the Great Lakes and one of North America’s longest rivers, Indiana has long benefited from abundant water access. As we look towards future growth and prosperity in a changing economy, we need to ensure that we are planning for future demands so that we can continue to strengthen economic competitiveness and quality of life.
To this end, CICP commissioned the accompanying report with the goal of informing discussions by providing more detail on how Indiana and six other states plan for and govern water use and management. The report identifies a number of specific mechanisms from policies, processes, tools, and best practices that have been used in other jurisdictions and that in some combination may be applicable and useful to Indiana as our policy makers seek to address this important issue.
