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<br />CG3J3S <br /> <br />. The "weather modification" program area included State projects <br />designed to augment winter snowpack levels. <br /> <br />. The "social and economic modeling" program area was a project <br />designed to simulate certain fiscal impacts of drought on the <br />Colorado economy. <br /> <br />. The activities undertaken within each of the program areas may be <br />roughly categorized as follows: <br /> <br />(a) needs assessment activities (using surveys); <br /> <br />(b) information dissemination (using media promotion and <br />workshops) ; <br /> <br />(c) delivery of services (such as assisting individuals and <br />communities in obtaining federal assistance); and <br /> <br />(d) the development of simulatior and forecasting tools or the <br />performance of water studies. <br /> <br />4.0 EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS <br /> <br />4.1 Physical and Economic Data Needs <br /> <br />. Pronounced shortages of timely and accurate data critical to crisis <br />and near-crisis decisionmaking of drought managers and their <br />cl ientele affected the development and timing of certain drought <br />mitigation activities. Some recommendations to rectify the data <br />problem are: <br /> <br />(a) develop physical data (i.e., snowfall, rainfall, streamflow, <br />etc.) monitoring systems which feature rapid one- or two-day <br />turnaround; <br /> <br />(b) <br /> <br />develop basinwide input/out~ut models to provide individual <br />water users with comprehenslve information pertaining to the <br />timing and amount of water each may expect to receive over a <br />given period of time; . <br /> <br />lSummary matrices which show the activities undertaken within each of the <br />eight program areas are provided on pages 51, 56, 60, 63, 67, 71, 76 and <br />79 in the text of the report. <br /> <br />5 <br />