Burning issues water rights and the environment

I really thought that this session of the Legislature would include a "Water War" but I was dead wrong. Not only have the bills related to the sale of water to Texas been killed but nothing has been done regarding environmental issues and pollution. There are ten agencies that have some responsibilities for or related to water. The Department of Environmental Quality. The Water Resources Board. The Department of Agriculture. The Corporation Commission. The Conservation Commission. The Department of Mines. The Department of Wildlife Conservation. The Department of Public Safety, Department of Labor and the Department of Emergency Management. All but the last three are required to develop and promulgate a Water Qulaity Standards Implementation Plan (WQSIP) for each juridictional area.

I have asked around and tried to find if there is any central gathering of these plans, any central review of these plans, any central coordination of these plans, any central review of enforcement, if any, of these plans or any ongoing report about these plans.

Most people who know and understand water, environmental issues connected to water and the agencies responsible for water quality, a handfull, will tell you that if the agencies listed carried out the responsibilities as set forth in Title 27A O.S. Sec. 1-3-101, that water quality in Oklahoma could be the best in the land. That same handfull will tell you that none of the agencies carry out those repsonsibilites to the extent that the laws expect or to the extent that they are required by the laws.