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Alternative <br />• Programs that encourage alternatives to buy and dry where appropriate. <br />• Develop coal bed methane water as a resource. <br />• Employ technology solutions for municipal water supply for lower quality water <br />sources. <br />• Agriculture, municipal, environment, and recreation all need to invest. <br />• More effective use and reuse of water. <br />• Change culture with respect to water use. <br />• Technological solutions for agriculture with polymer in soil. <br />• Building codes to address landscaping. <br />• Buy turf like Las Vegas - bluegrass has seen its day. <br />• Not going to have quality of life and standard of living without societal changes. <br />• Pay more for food, clothing, water. <br />• Politicians need to be more realistic; cannot save agriculture, have water for the <br />environment, municipal, and energy demand. This is about making choices. We <br />must have a way to talk about trade-offs. Can we be sustainable within our <br />resource base? <br />• Need to have dialogue about our compact entitlement. We should start having <br />discussions about further development of Colorado River Water now. <br />- We can talk within a range of supply availability. <br />- We should talk about who assumes what risk under different development <br />scenarios. <br />- Need to look at risks to the West Slope. <br />- Need to look at risks to West Slope agriculture. <br />• Providers may not care about people. Citizens of the Front Range care more about <br />the West Slope than the Front Range water providers do. <br />• Sit down today and say we are in a range of 250,000-750,000 acre-feet to develop. <br />Need to talk about the concept of compact development not about Yampa, <br />Colorado, Gunnison pumpbacks. <br />• Recognize the contribution the West Slope provides to Front Range activities and <br />economy. It is the playground of the Front Range and the Metro area is the jumping <br />off place for visitors to our State. <br />• May need to put a statement up on the board "This is the last generation with <br />enough resources." It is our turn to figure out the next 50 years. It takes a while to <br />realize we are at risk. <br />7 <br />I:\INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMITTEEWISIONS FOR COLORADO WATER SUPPLY FUTURE\RESPONSES TO VISIONING AND MARCH MEETING\IBCC REPRESENTATIVE COMMENTS.DOC