For decades, state and local governments, along with water management organizations, have worked to protect and restore the water quality in Minnesota’s 11,842 lakes and 92,000 miles of rivers and streams.

Perceptions of how all of that is working out may emerge in the work of a task force in the office of State Attorney General Keith Ellison. The Task Force on the Future of Minnesota’s Water membership reflects the many varied interests and complexity of managing water pollution from non-point sources.

“I’m forming this task force to jump-start an important conversation about how we steward our precious water resources into the future, especially in the context of pressures like increasing demand and global climate change,” Ellison said in a news release announcing the panel last spring

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