The Miami Valley's water resources are one of the area’s greatest assets. Our water supply — both groundwater and surface water — provide abundant resources for industry, businesses and future economic growth and development. Clean, safe drinking water is essential to human, wildlife, plant and aquatic communities.

The area’s drinking water comes from a huge buried valley aquifer system that provides local communities with an abundant supply of high quality water. This groundwater (aquifer) system is closely linked to the region’s surface waterways, with each flowing between the other during periods of low and high flows.

The Miami Conservancy District (MCD) studies our region's water, develops programs to protect it and shares information to help citizens become involved in preserving it.

The Miami Conservancy District (MCD) established its Groundwater Preservation Program in 1997 to develop and maintain an ongoing, watershed-wide technical program to help protect and manage the area’s aquifer and groundwater resources.