Comprehensive water resource management efforts increasingly recognize the value of integrating water, wastewater, stormwater, and land planning as vital activities to sustain local infrastructure. This comprehensive, watershed-based approach to resource management is driving regulatory efforts nationwide through the total maximum daily load process used by regulatory agencies as a component of the permitting process. Projects that encourage wise resource management require system designs consistent with environmental mandates; sound, robust technologies; well-trained, competent certified personnel to operate and oversee all aspects of the infrastructure operations; and the ability to manage and sustain that infrastructure. A total water management concept must be applied to water reuse and treatment efforts, stormwater management, water supply management – all in a local watershed context. For many small communities, this approach may present a unique challenge.