Great Lakes Basin Compact (Ohio Revised Code: Title 61 Water Supply, Sanitation, And Ditches; Chapter 6161) Country/Territory United States of America Territorial subdivision Ohio Document type Legislation Date 2018 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Water Keyword Sub-national agreement Surface water Inland waters Water conservation zone Basin/catchment/watershed Freshwater resources management Waterworks Navigation Industrial water use Water supply Governance Institution Geographical area Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic Abstract This Chapter of the Ohio Revised Code adopts the Great Lakes Basin Compact entered into the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. The purposes of this Compact are, through means of joint or co-operative action: (A) To promote the orderly, integrated, and comprehensive development, use, and conservation of the water sources of the great lakes basin (hereinafter called the basin); (B) To plan for the welfare and development of the water resources of the basin as a whole, as well as for those portions of the basin which may have problems of special concern; (C) To make it possible for the states of the basin and their people to derive the maximum benefit from utilization of public works, in the form of navigational aids or otherwise, which may exist or which may be constructed from time to time; (D) To advise in securing and maintaining a proper balance among industrial, commercial, agricultural, water supply, residential, recreational, and other legitimate uses of the water resources of the basin; (E) To establish and maintain an intergovernmental agency to the end that the purposes of this compact may be accomplished more effectively. Full text English Website codes.ohio.gov