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Arkansas Basin Roundtable Technical Meeting #1 <br />Meeting Summary <br />existing local planning and planning needs. <br />^ Better management statewide growth. A roundtable participant expressed an interest in <br />looking at alternatives that may either slow growth or promote growth in areas where water <br />surpluses exist. It was suggested that economic incentives and assistance policies could <br />promote moving population to areas with greater supply opportunities rather than moving <br />the water to areas of need. <br />^ Protect quality of life. Roundtable members from more rural areas indicated that the practice <br />of agriculture selling their water rights is causing rural Colorado communities to die. Other <br />members expressed that other factors are contributing to decreasing populations in rural <br />Colorado communities. It was suggested that joint benefits of selling water could be achieved <br />for rural and urban Colorado areas if the urban areas could find ways to use the labor pool <br />that exists in rural areas. <br />With respect to protecting quality of life, roundtable members pointed out that the urban <br />population depends on agriculture community for fresh meats and vegetables and the <br />agriculture community depends on the urban population for providing the demand for such <br />goods. <br />^ Representation of all interests, public, and private in implementation. The importance of <br />keeping an open dialogue between those with opposing water management opinions was <br />expressed. Vital to the communication is the ability to keep promises with respect to water <br />management decisions. <br />Please note that the context of some of the above discussions is repeated as part of the objectives <br />summary. <br />Water Management Objectives <br />Following the presentation on SWSI purpose, goals, and project scope, Paul Brown defined <br />terms that will become the basis of the SWSI process and described how water supply objectives <br />and subobjectives will be created and used to evaluate water supply alternatives. For the <br />purposes of the SWSI project, the following terms and definitions will be used: <br />Objectives - The goals that define the essential purposes in broad, overarching terms. For the <br />purposes of SWSI, an objective will be measurable, non-redundant, concise, and <br />understandable. <br />Performance Measures - The indicators of how well the objectives are being met. <br />Options - The individual building blocks that consist of projects, management solutions, and <br />other options. Options may include surface water, groundwater, storage, water transfer, reuse, <br />and conservation themes. <br />~~ <br />Copy ofArkansas BRT Mtg #1 Summary_fnal.doc 11/14/2003 <br />