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<br />. incentives available to both surface and groundwater irrigators to <br />improve on-farm. efficiency of water use through such measures as <br />improved measurement instrumentation, irrigation scheduling, and more <br />efficient on-farm delivery systems; <br /> <br />. incremental pricing and conservation credit for agricultural and <br />municipal users; <br /> <br />. education and information programs; <br /> <br />. inCentives for municipal conservation by individual water users; <br /> <br />. reduction or retirement of consumptive uses on a willing-participant <br />basis with compensation made to local governm~l entities for third <br />party aDd external impacts; . <br /> <br />. dry year leasing of water supplies from CODS1uHI-tive uses to a Program; <br /> <br />,'; <br /> <br />. ' 'cmVunctive ImIftSlgcment of surface and grouodwater that achieves <br />, susmimlhte use of grouDdwater; ',;'.' , <br /> <br />.. <br />~, <br /> <br />jdl!nrifieation of demoDstration projects;,' <br /> <br />. -~'"'.. ,- <br /> <br />''oi ' '.~ <br /> <br />additional surface water and/or grouudwater reregulation G}'~{hnUries <br />involving reductions in diversion or pumping; aud <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />~<~~' :- -.~ _. . *- <br />. inceDtives available to hydropower producers to provide water to a <br />Program. <br /> <br />,. .. <br />The ~m1eIlt in each region shall result in I'CC()1ImV!IVISlrions regarding the <br />, inclusion of each of these a1temative types of water conservatiODlsupply <br />projects, or other alternative types as may be ~M for that region within a <br />Program. Other as~s~ of or recommf!1ldSltions for water <br />conservation/supply alternatives may be included for further consideration if and <br />to the extent the Water Management Committee cIetcrmines that a regional <br />assessment has not adcquatcly considered feasible alternatives. <br /> <br /> <br />- <br />In addition, the consultant sball develop as pan of the Reconrnlli~sance Study and <br />in cooperation with the states and the Water Management Committee, a water <br />budget for each region for use in helping to evaluate how o~er water related <br />activities, including new accretions and depletions to the system, will affect <br />streamflows down to and through the associa~ habitats. Further. the water <br />budget should have the capacity for use in helping to evaluate how any proposed <br />water conservation/supply measure influences the amount and timing of flows <br /> <br />3 <br />