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industries, and other public and private purposes. This includes areas that affect those water sources, such as source water protection areas. Creating a program for how to implement local rules and regulations about water supply, including when and how these rules will be developed, adopted, and administered. Communities served by a municipal community public water supply system must fulfill part of these requirements by attaching a local water supply plan approved by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as an appendix to the comprehensive plan. The Water Supply Considerations map illustrates some key content for your community, including Drinking Water Supply Management Areas, Special Well and Boring Construction Areas, and Priority Waters qualifying as drinking water sources. We strongly encourage you to include any required information that isn’t in the local water supply plan—such as source water protection and privately-owned wells—in a water chapter of your comprehensive plan. A customized checklist of minimum requirements for your community is included in the Local Planning Handbook, along with resources to help you meet and go beyond minimum requirements. Source Water Protection Your comprehensive plan should consider water use (including water supply sources) as part of land use planning, to promote land use practices and development decisions that protect public health for your community and the region. Include information aboutthe location of both groundwater and surface water source water protection areas and their vulnerability for all community public drinking water source(s) within your community’s borders and associated contaminant threats. Also include a commitment to collaborate with neighbors on source water protection, when applicable. Privately-Owned Wells and Nonmunicipal Public Water Supply Systems Your comprehensive plan should include information about the current and planned use and management strategies for privately-owned wells and nonmunicipal public water supply systems, because people, institutions, and businesses in your community use those sources for a wide range of agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial and/or other nonmunicipal purposes. If a new municipal community public water supply system is planned by 2050, a water chapter of the updated comprehensive plan should include details about the planned system. Municipal Community Public Water Supply Systems Water Supply System Information Because people, institutions, and businesses in your community get water through a municipal community public water supply system, you must include information about that system and an implementation program in your comprehensive plans, to demonstrate the availability of clean, 2025 SYSTEM STATMENTWATER RESOURCES28