The goals of the Common Waters Partnership are to:
- Create a basin-wide community dedicated to working together.
- Identify and protect areas deemed critical for water quality and identify the practices that best contribute to maintaining water quality.
- Encourage cross-boundary collaboration by facilitating communication, information sharing, and partnerships.
- Act as a regional information source for assembling educational outreach and scientific research materials to enhance the collective knowledge base and support objective decision making.
- Increase public awareness of the status and trends of the region’s economy, community, and environment through the use of consistent data and information sharing.
- Develop a political will to bring funding to the region and seek out sources of conservation and economic development funds.
- Strengthen stakeholder capacity to address key issues.
- Collaborate to incubate and promote initiatives that support and further the goals of Common Waters.
- Document project successes and failures to better assist other communities.
