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Stanly County Board Of C0minissioners AHIFMARI~. NORTIICAROLINA 28001 COUNTY OF STANLY, . NORTH CAROLINA. WHEREAS, the General Assembly of thc State of North Carolina has the responsibility to protect the rights, privileges, and heritage of the citizens of North Carolina and to protect the resources of the areas of the State in which those citizens reside; and, Iflt£REAS, the Board of County Commiss'ioners of each county of the State has the responsibility to protect the natnral resources available to the citizens of the couaty over which they have jnrisdiction; and, WHERE^S, water is a natural resoorce generally made available to each county by the geography of the State; and, WItERE^s, the water natural resource has been protected under the law in accordance with geographic divisions o£ water resources by basins: and, WHEREAS. any legislation enacted which would allow redistribution of water by interbasin transfer would deny the citizens of a basin from which water was diverted of their rights as property owners to the imtural resource available to them; and, I~fltEREAS. the diversion of water from one area of the State to another would lead to Increasingly more expensive development costs as the area to which the ~ater is diverted continues to grow and to cause increasing de- .ands of one river basin on another; and, ~IEREAS, the location of development in the river basin ~here the ~ater resource already exists would cause the spread of economic development ·nd allow n~ opportunities in water-rich basins N0~, THEREFORE, in consideration of tbe above facts, the Board of County Cor~issioners of Stanl¥ County opposes vigorously interbasin transfers of water in order that the developmen[ el' the State of North Carolina ma),