CSIReportColoradoBasinRoundtable

• Working Group: Public Education, Participation and Outreach
• Title: Mapping the Colorado Basin Roundtable's Water Policy Networks
• Date: 3/1/2008
• Author: Colorado Institute of Public Policy
• Interbasin CC - Doc Type: General Resources

Mapping the Colorado Basin Rou ndtable’s Water Policy Networks
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Section 5: Overlapping Ro undtable Membership
The Roundtable process is intended not only to foster collaboration within a basin, but also
across basins. The formal structure of the roundtables, with open participation from both
appointed voting and non-voting members, enables this type of cross-basin collaboration. The
question is whether or not the networks exist to allow the collaboration to occur. Two types of
data were used to explore this question, with an emphasis on whether the Colorado Basin
Roundtable has the networks needed to connect effectively with other basins and the IBCC.
Overlapping Involvement with the Colorado Basin Roundtable
Survey respondents were asked to self-report the roundtables they are involved with and their
role on other roundtables. Among the survey respondents, there is overlap between
participants in the Colorado Basin Roundtable and all of the other roundtables, including the
IBCC. The voting members of the Colorado Basin Roundtable have limited involvement with
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other roundtables, with the exception of the IBCC. The non-voting members of the Colorado
Basin Roundtable are more involved with other roundtables and are serving as voting members
on the Arkansas, Metro, and South Platte Roundtables.
The liaisons to the Colorado Basin Roundtable reported the most frequent involvement per
person in other roundtables, with every other roundtable having between two and four of the
same liaisons at their meetings as the Colorado Basin Roundtable. “Liaisons” refer to the
individuals formally representing a state, federal, or university organization, but not officially
members of the roundtable. Although the small group of nine survey respondents who report
involvement with the Colorado Basin Roundtable as liaisons are actively involved in many other
tables, they are the least likely of any roundtable participants to be involved, in any way, with the
IBCC.
Key Finding 5.1: The
Many people reported observing roundtable meetings
Colorado Basin Roundtable
throughout the state and the observers overlap between
has the greatest overlap in
roundtables. At least six individuals overlap between the
participants and observers
observers of the Colorado Basin Roundtable and any other
with the Arkansas and
roundtable. The Colorado Basin Roundtable has the greatest
Gunnison Basin
overlapping formal and informal involvement with the
Roundtable.
Arkansas and Gunnison Basin Roundtables, including voting
members, non-voting members, liaisons and observers.
Details of these relationships are below.
Voting Members: Of the 31 survey respondents who reported a voting role on the Colorado
Basin Roundtable, overlap with other roundtables includes:
One respondent serving as a non-voting member of the Arkansas Basin Roundtable;
One respondent observing the Gunnison Roundtable; and

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Details of the data in this section can be found in Appendix A, Tables A5.1 – A5.3.
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Per the HB1177 legislation, the voting members of the roundtables must resi de within the water basin. For this
reason, it makes sense that the voting members of one basin roundtable are not also voting members of another
basin roundtable. However, this does not preclude t he voting members of one basin from being observers or non-
voting members on another roundtable, an infrequent occurrence in this data.
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