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Ý±´±®¿¼±ù É¿¬»® Í«°°´§ Ú«¬«®» Bill Ritter, Jr. Governor Harris D. Sherman DNR Executive Director ×²¬»®¾¿·² Ý±³°¿½¬ Ð®±½» Ï«¿®¬»®´§ Ò»©´»¬¬»® ó î²¼ Ï«¿®¬»® îððé non-consumptive water uses, and 3) water supply availability. The challeng e ahead is to take on Executive Director of DNR and these issues of statewide importance while Director of Compact Negotiations continuing to support a grass roots process. My thanks to all of you for your This newsletter summarizes the basin-by-basin support and dedication to the Basin progress we have made on needs assessments and Roundtable (BRT) and Interbasin implementing water activities through the WSRA. Compact Process. As we enter the It also summarizes an overall approach for second quarter of 2007, we continue developing consumptiv e and non-consumptive to make progress toward our goal of completing needs assessments and a supply availability basin-wide water needs assessments by the end study. The strategy builds on the Statewide of 2008. Additionally, wa ter activities funded Water Supply Initiative (SWSI) Phase 1 and 2, and through the Water Supply Reserve Account the work of each BRT in developing their basin- (WSRA) are addressing sp ecific needs for each wide water needs assessments. The strategy also basin. This work has allowed the program to build addresses issues of a common technical platform a foundation at the grassroots level and has been which the Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC) very effective increasing the understanding and the Colorado Water Conservation Board within each basin and addressing local water (CWCB) have committed to help develop. challenges. Implementation of these efforts, in conjunction with the continued work on the basin-wide water Although the process has been helpful in solving needs assessments and the WSRA, will advance water problems within each basin, it is also the overall goals of the Interbasin Compact necessary to engage in cross-basin dialogue on Process. key water issues that are of statewide importance. Understanding these issues across The Interbasin Compact Process is a bold basins will be tantamo unt to our success. experiment and it is a uniquely Colorado experiment. It is bringing together people all In addition to the needs assessment and WSRA over the state and asking them to work together work occurring at the Basin Roundtable level, on Colorado's water supply future. It is a risky there are three other efforts that are integral to process, but it has a real chance of succeeding in the Interbasin Compact Process addressing helping Colorado provide a sustainable water statewide issues on a common technical supply for its residents and environment. platform. These include: 1) technical work on consumptive water uses, 2) technical work on 2nd Quarter 2007 S://1400 Technical Support Basin Roundtables/Fact Sheets/Quarterly Newsletters/Harris 2nd Qrt 07 Newsletter_7-26