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<br />CDIVI <br /> <br />Update on Statewide Water Supply Initiative <br />- Arkansas Basin <br /> <br />Conservation efforts will be a significant strategy for most providers in the Arkansas <br />Basin in meeting future demands. In addition, the plans for many Arkansas water <br />providers include some component of agricultural transfers and the optimization of <br />existing supplies through new storage and/ or reuse, exchanges, and augmentation <br />plans. As urban growth continues, there will be some natural retirement of <br />agricultural lands as these properties are converted to urban use. In addition to the <br />urbanization of agricultural lands, most water providers continue to acquire <br />agricultural water rights to some extent. If the new water projects and reservoir <br />enlargements listed in Table 6 do not produce the planned amounts of water, there <br />will be significant pressure on water providers to acquire additional agricultural <br />water rights beyond what will normally occur. <br /> <br />A final round of Basin Roundtable meetings will be held in August and September. <br />The fourth meeting for the Arkansas Basin will take place on Tuesday, September 7, <br />2004. You are welcome to attend the final round, but in either case, information <br />regarding results, decisions, and outcomes of the meetings will be available on the <br />project website. For more information on meeting times, locations, and additional <br />details, visit the CWCB website at www.cwcb.state.co.us and click on Statewide <br />Water Supply Initiative. <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />SWSI Update - Arkansas Basin <br />