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• Board Meeting Date: 3/18/2008
• Description: CF Section - Severance Tax Trust Fund Operational Account Recommendations
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Water Conservation Planning Program
1. Water Supply Assessment Follow-Up
Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: CWCB, Various
Amount of Request: $100,000 Ranking: Medium
Product Produced: This project would continue to follow-up activities to the Drought & Water
Supply Assessment (DWSA) completed in 2004 and 2007. It would also support the Governor's
Climate Action Plan calling for ongoing statewide drought assessments to be performed to determine
the state of drought preparedness by water providers and local governments. The findings and
recommendations of the DWSA's concluded that an effective assessment of the impacts of drought
on Colorado water users and the evaluation of the needs of Colorado water users is best performed
through periodic surveys of those Colorado water users that participated in the original project. The
follow-up activities would include:
The development and administration of an assessment tool;
The collection and evaluation of survey data; and
The preparation and distribution of the reports in auser-friendly format.
Water Planning Relationship: The assessment will be performed relative to: water supply, drought
and water conservation planning; drought mitigation, and the Statewide Water Supply Initiative
(SWSI). In keeping with CWCB's position on SWSI, this project would also provide an opportunity
to implement portions of SWSI relative to gathering data and tracking those water entities that have
integrated water conservation in whole or in part to achieve their 2030 water supply goals.
Recommendation: Staff gives a medium recommendation to the funding of this project because
of its impact on water conservation and drought planning as well as its contribution to attaining the
goals of SWSI and the Water for the 21St Century Act.
2. Statewide Water Conservation Initiative Project
Beneficiary/Grantee/Contractor: CWCB, Various
Amount of Request: $100,000 Ranking: High
Product Produced: Activities related to this initiative and to be funded may include:
Development of water conservation planning technical tools for municipal, commercial,
industrial, and institutional water sectors.
~ Development of a comprehensive Water Conservation Economics Model to help water
providers predict the operational & financial impact of water conservation measures.
• Development and update of a Statewide Water Conservation database to monitor and
integrate water conservation activities and projected water savings by water providers in the
State's ongoing water resource planning activities. This database would be compatible with
the Colorado Decision Support System (CDSS).
~ Coordinate the water conservation technical platform for the House Bill OS-1177 Roundtable
Process and the ongoing SWSI process.
• Coordinate statewide water conservation workshops and an annual summit focusing on the
science and technical aspects of water conservation.
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