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<br />Statement, "Alternat ives to the Proposed Act ion, II is incorporated by <br />reference as part of this environmental assessment. The eight programmatic <br />alternatives discussed in the FES in addition to precipitation management <br />are: <br /> <br />- the null or no action alternative <br />accommodating to projected water shortages <br />- expanded conventional water resoures engineering <br />- geothermal waters <br />- saline waters <br />- interbasin or intrabasin water transfers <br />- water reclaimed through conservation <br />- alternative technologies applicable to the atmospheric water resource <br /> <br />Continued investigation or implementation of one or any combination of the <br />programmatic alternatives in a particular region does not preclude <br />consideration of the remaining alternatives. Certain alternatives, or <br />combinations of alternatives, may be complementary. Thus, development of <br />precipitation management technology does not foreclose, per se, the use or <br />development of other water resource management alternatives. <br /> <br />Several alternatives were discussed by the Commissioner of WPRS at recent <br />congressional hearings [3]. WPRS has conducted feasibility studies on the <br />development of geothermal resources and providing desalting capability to <br />develop a source of freshwater for augmenting the Colorado River system. <br />It has been found that use of geothermal brines for augmenting the Colorado <br />River water supply cannot be economically justified unless an energy <br /> <br />9 <br />