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~ Assist water users to analyze how climate change and vulnerability, and climate extremes <br />might exacerbate those vulnerabilities <br />~ Collaborate with federal, state, and local water provider efforts to design an analytic <br />process to better address and solve the vulnerability in the face of climate uncertainty <br />including but not limited to selection and application of baseline and scenario data <br />including the development of alternative time series datasets of important variables such <br />as daily or monthly precipitation, temperature, wind speed, and socio-economic scenarios <br />of population change <br />~ Provide assistance to water provider in developing a method of decision analysis to <br />narrow in on optimal options for adapting to climate change and variability <br />While several of Colorado's larger water providers are currently engaged in proactive climate <br />change/adaptive management studies, many mid-size and the majority of the smaller providers <br />lack the tools and resources to begin these analysis. Every effort will be made to leverage to the <br />maximum extent possible appropriated funds for this project to optimize the benefits to as many <br />water users around the State that are working on or contemplating integrating climate change <br />impacts on their system reliability. <br />Recommendations <br />Staff recommends that the Board request the General Assembly to authorize $100,000 from the <br />Construction Fund to be appropriated to the Department of Natural Resources for allocation to <br />the CWCB for use in its Office of Water Conservation & Drought Planning. <br />3 <br />