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

Water Supply Strategies
The third part of a statewide vision for Colorado's water supply future are water supply
strategies. During their May and August meetings, the IBCC discussed which water supply
strategies may help meet our state's consumptive and nonconsumptive water supply needs.
They agreed on a draf t list of strategies f or further evaluation. These included:
Demand Side Strategies
^ Growth, Land Use, and Density Development
^ Municipal and Industrial Conservation
^ Agricultural Conservation, Efficiency, and Alternative Cropping Patterns
^ Reduction in Water Demands for Energy Development (Traditional and Renewable Energy)
Supply Side Strategies
^ Reuse and Desalination
^ Agricultural Transfers: Traditional Permanent Transfers and Alternatives to Traditional
Transfers
^ Optimizing/Rehabilitating Existing Storage and Delivery Systems
^ New In-basin Storage that can Meet Multiple Uses while being Sensitive to our
Environmental and Recreational Needs
^ Colorado River Compact Development
^ Transbasin Diversions
^ Coordinated Reservoir Operations, Infrastructure Development, and Opportunities for
Shared Infrastructure
^ Integrated Management of Groundwater and Surface Water including the optimum use of
groundwater and surface water supplies and the use of aquifer storage and recovery
At the July CWCB Board meeting, the CWCB Board reviewed this draft list and asked staff to
begin evaluating these strategies.
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