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Statewide/Metro Basin <br />Peter Binney <br />Status Quo <br />Right now we are meeting our water needs through an adhoc incremental approach <br />where each provider pursues their own project. This is not an efficient way to provide <br />water services. <br />• Local decisionmaking, no economies of scale, no solutions, no regional planning. <br />• Realizing deficit spending on aquifer and on water supplies. <br />• This will lead to a crisis. <br />• Start to inhibit economic well being. <br />Alternative <br />• IBCC needs to do something. <br />• Calibrate back to a common purpose and need. <br />• Colorado compact call curtailment will have significant impact on Front Range. <br />• Looking for a way to develop the State's apportionment of compact water. <br />• Vision Statement: <br />- West Slope: Energy development, non-consumptive uses. <br />- Front Range: 2-1/2 to 3 million more people. <br />• Demand management. <br />• Agricultural transfers. <br />• Interruptive supplies. <br />• We are either going to meet our future water needs through adhoc incremental <br />projects or through a broader regional effort. <br />- State should support a broader approach. <br />• Federal projects should be optimized. <br />• Transbasin group has put a memo together. <br />- Front Range: <br />? Increased Agriculture to Urban. <br />? Enhanced conservation, change in land-use planning. <br />? Reuse and reclamation projects. <br />? Regionalization of water supply. <br />- Additional Colorado River projects. <br />- Additional regulatory storage. <br />- Reoperation of federal facilities. <br />- Full cost priority of water. <br />- T&E Species. <br />- Water Quality. <br />a <br />I:\INTERBASIN COMPACT COMMITTEEWISIONS FOR COLORADO WATER SUPPLY FUTURE\RESPONSES TO VISIONING AND MARCH MEETING\IBCC REPRESENTATIVE COMMENTS.DOC