The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) protects Michigan’s environment and public health by managing air, water, land, and energy resources. The Water Resources Division’s (WRD) mission is to make Michigan’s waters safe and clean for recreating, fishing, drinking, and healthy aquatic ecosystems. WRD protects Michigan's waters through water quality standards, aquatic community assessment, wastewater discharge regulation, and oversight of aquatic invasive species and water withdrawals. WRD oversees activities in the Great Lakes, inland lakes, streams, wetlands, floodplains, critical sand dunes, high risk erosion areas, and underwater shipwrecks.