WATER – States findings of the Legislature and supports the 2024 Stipulated Mitigation Plan between water users and revising the State Water Plan to establish an Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer recharge goal.

This concurrent resolution supports Idaho's 2024 Stipulated Mitigation Plan between water users and groundwater districts, and directs the Idaho Water Resource Board to revise the State Water Plan to establish a new annual groundwater recharge goal of 350,000 acre-feet for the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer. It directly affects agricultural communities, municipalities, and businesses relying on the aquifer for irrigation, municipal water, and hydropower across southern and eastern Idaho. The resolution updates a previous 2015 agreement and aims to address declining groundwater levels that have caused water supply conflicts and reduced surface flows in the Snake River.