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<br />II. PROPOSED ACTION AND ALTERNATIVES <br /> <br />The action proposed by WPRS is to seed winter storm clouds in the Rocky <br />Mountains of the Colorado River Basin to increase snowpack, runoff, and <br />streamflow, thereby providing increased water yield to help meet future <br />resource demands. <br /> <br />A. No Action <br /> <br />Under this alternative no specific activities would occur in the Colorado <br />River Basin resulting in a design for a Basin-wide operational cloud <br />seeding program. Research into physical processes within storms, develop- <br />ment of new instrumentation for an improved measurement capability, and <br />testing techniques for real-time analysis and evaluation of results would <br />continue under the current WPRS research program budget. This alternative <br />presents no additional funding requirements and no environmental or social <br />impacts. No institutional arrangements for administering additional water <br />supplies are needed. The disadvantages of the no action alternative are <br />that weather modification as a nonstructural alternative for augmenting <br />the Colorado River Basin water supply will not be demonstrated as a usable <br />alternative. Development in the Basin may be restricted. In order to <br />meet the water use anticipated under the terms of the Colorado River <br />Compact, other methods of augmenting the water supply would be required <br />ultimately. Delivery of water to Mexico as well as replacement supplies <br />for depletions resulting from the Salinity Control Program would be <br />impacted. <br /> <br />3 <br />