Indiana Has Plenty of Water but Management Needs Work… [Video]

STATEWIDE — Indiana has plenty of water but a need for new distribution ideas. That’s the conclusion of a water study that began a decade ago.

Bloomington-based INTERA Incorporated was tasked by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce in 2014 to study the state’s total supply of water, where it’s located, and how to best distribute it based on Indiana’s diverse landscape.

“Each of these ideas has been tried out,” says Jack Wittman, project leader, vice president and principal water resource hydrologist for INTERA, “how do we look at regions? How do we evaluate water availability? We didn’t really have a method before, so now there at least methodologies to say this is how much we think there is available.”

In addition, INTERA also broke down water usage for large parts of the Hoosier State.

North of the Wabash River, every community, manufacturer and irrigator has access to their own local groundwater or stream. In central Indiana, water sources are not as abundant. Water …