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• Board Meeting Date: 9/17/2008
• Description: Director's Report - IBCC Director - IBCC Visioning Process
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

Vision Goals
Vision goals constitute the second component of a statewide visioning process f or Colorado's
water supply future. Vision goals will be used to compare the perf ormance of water supply
strategies. These vision goals are based on previous work by the IBCC, the CWCB Board, and
other processes including: l) responses to the IBCC Visioning Exerciser, the Statewide Water
Supply Initiative (SWSI) Major Findingsrr, the SWSI Objectivesrrr, CSU's recent analysis of water
belief s and valuesrV, University of Denver's Colorado's Water Future Panel, and the IBCC's
Guiding Principles (the CO 64 Principals)~r.
The IBCC discussed and generally agreed on the following draft Vision Goals:
^ Sustainably meet municipal and industrial demands
^ Sustainably meet agricultural demands
^ Sustainably meet Colorado's environment and recreation demands
^ Encourage cooperation between water supply planners and land use planners
^ Encourage more cooperation among all Colorado water users
^ Optimize existing and future water supplies by:
- Minimizing non-beneficial consumptive use (evaporation, non-native phreatophytes, etc.)
- Maximizing successive uses of legally reusable water
- Maximizing use of existing and new in-basin supplies
^ Promote cost-effectiveness by:
- Allocating costs to all beneficiaries f airly
- Achieving benefits at the lowest cost
- Providing viable financing mechanisms, including local, state, and federal
funding/financing
- Mitigating third-party economic impacts
^ Minimize the net energy used to supply water, including both the energy used and/ or
generated with raw water delivery, and the energy used f or treatment
^ Protect cultural values by:
- Maintaining and improving the quality of lif e unique to each basin
- Maintaining open space
^ Provide operational flexibility and coordinated infrastructure
^ Promote increased f airness when water is moved between basins by:
- Benefiting both the area of origin and the area of use
- Minimizing the adverse economic and environmental impacts of future water projects
and water transf ers
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