One of the crown jewels of the East, the Housatonic River and its wild trout fishery suffered from altered streamflows. But in 2003, Trout Unlimited and the Housatonic Coalition won a landmark agreement that established natural flows in the river and ended the daily peaking flows that hurt the river and anglers alike. Following on that success, in 2005 TU led the fight to establish statewide streamflow standards, including placing limits on how much water can be taken out of streams or groundwater wells near streams. This made Connecticut one of the first states in the East to adopt comprehensive water quantity laws, a model that is now being followed in several other states.