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? <br /> <br />Quantifying/estimating current and future municipal and industrial water use <br />including estimates of consumptive demands . Example tasks may include but are <br />not limited to: interviews with providers ; summary and analysis of demand <br />studies; summary and analysis of population estimates and consensus data; <br />evaluation of service areas and service area boundaries; estimates of water <br />resources (surface and ground water) sustainability and reliability; and evaluation <br />of providers’ raw water production, waste water treatment outfalls, reuse, <br />conservation and efficiency, wholesale water contracts, and direct flow and <br />storage. <br /> <br />? <br /> <br />Quantifying/estimating agricultural demands . Example tasks may include but are <br />not limited to: identification and evaluation of irrigated acreage and crop type; <br />utilization of method(s) for estimating consumptive use (irrigation water <br />requirements and water supply limited estimates), gross diversions, return flows, <br />losses, and non - benefi cial consumptive use. Methods should be consistent with , <br />and complementary to , the state’s Decision Support System (DSS). <br /> <br />? <br /> <br />Identifying and quantifying non - consumptive water demands . Utilize information <br />from the ongoing SWSI effort to further identify and prioritize important resource <br />values/attributes and water resource management end points. This effort will <br />include but is not limited to: evaluation of geographic information on cold and <br />warm water species, stream reaches affected by physical or chemical parameters, <br />species of special concern, high value resource areas, threatened and endangered <br />species, and water based recreational opportunities. <br /> <br />? <br /> <br />Analyzing both surface and groundwater hydrology and available water supplies . <br />Example tasks may include bu t are not limited to: identifying presently perfected <br />rights, conditional rights, and full development of existing rights; analyzing river <br />basin hydrology using means, medians, maximums, and minimums, single - year <br />and multi - year periods, and rea sonable vari ations in hydrology; tracking and <br />accounting of water transfers between uses and between watersheds; and <br />estimating aquifer capacity, yield, sustainability, and suitability for aquifer <br />storage/recharge. <br /> <br />? <br /> <br />Evaluation and analysis of proposed projects or meth ods to meet identified water <br />needs. Example tasks may include but are not limited to: analyzing projects or <br />methods that involve conservation, system efficiencies, conjunctive use, <br />ecological restoration, water transfers, development of unappropriated wat ers, and <br />nonstructural solutions; and analyzing how options meet identified water <br />management objectives (sustainably meet M&I demands, sustainably meet <br />agricultural demands, optimize existing and future water supplies, enhance <br />recreational opportunities, p rovide for environmental enhancement, promote cost <br />effectiveness, protect cultural values, provide for operational flexibility, and <br />comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and water rights). <br /> <br />