In Minnesota, a multi-county scale of resource planning and development is being promoted by the State Planning Agency. Today, all of the 13 Minnesota planning regions have been or are being organized by multi-county planning and development councils. A major concern of these councils is the financing, provision and delivery of critical social and environmental services, like health care and, also, water supply and wastewater treatment. To help in developing and testing alternative approaches to resource development, a multi-county study area was selected several years ago in West Minnesota. The regional development implies certain requirements for the 14-county study area. At this time the financing requirements of area systems for municipal and industrial water, wastewater treatment, solid waste disposal, flood control, land treatment and drainage, irrigation, recreation, and power is being identified. Portions of this document are not fully legible.