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Water Supply Strategies <br />The third pert of a statewide vision for Colorado's water supply future are water supply <br />strategies. During their May and August meetings, the IBCC discussed which water supply <br />strategies may help meet our state's consumptive and nonconsumptive water supply needs. <br />They agreed on a draft list of strategies for hither evaluation. These included: <br />Demand Side Strategies <br />¦ Growth, Land Use, and Density- Development <br />¦ Municipal and Industrial Conservation <br />¦ Agricultural Conservation, Efficiency-, and Alternative Cropping Patterns <br />¦ Reduction in Water Demands for Ener`y Development (Traditional and Renewable Energy) <br />Supply Side Strategies <br />¦ Reuse and Desalination <br />¦ Agricultural Transfers: Traditional Permanent Transfers and Alternatives to Traditional <br />Transfers <br />¦ Optimizing/Rehabilitating Existing Storage and Delivery Systems <br />¦ New hi-basin Storage that can Meet Multiple Uses while being Sensitive to our <br />Environmental and Recreational Needs <br />¦ Colorado River Compact Development <br />¦ Transbasi n Diversions <br />¦ Coordinated Reservoir Operations, hnfrastractuure Development, and Opportunities for <br />Shared Infrastructure <br />¦ Integrated Management of Groundtivater and Surface Water including the optimum use of <br />groundwater and surface water supplies and the use of aquifer storage and recovery <br />At the July- CWCB Board meeting, the CWCB Board reviewed this draft list and asked staff to <br />begin evaluating these strategies.