14b

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

These strategies will be evaluated by examining the opportunities, challenges, and trade-offs
associated with each strategy or combination of strategies and by examining "what-if" scenarios.
The steps for evaluating water supply strategies are illustrated in the following figure.
Demand and Supply Side Strategies
• Execute technical workforeachstrategy
• Examine abilityto meet Colorado's
consumptive and nonconsumptive needs
• Examine risks
• Examine potential impacts of climate change
• Incorporateanalysisfrompreviousand
ongoing studies
Examine "What If"
Scenarios
Examine "tradeoffs"
between strategies
Identify multi purpose
projects or ways to integrate
consumptive and
nonconsumptive needs
we began this evaluation at the August IBCC meeting by f ocusing on three key water supply
strategies:
^ M&I Conservation
^ Agricultural Water Transfers
^ Compact Development and Transbasin Diversions
Action Item
During the August IBCC meeting, members discussed policy issues and addition
technical work associated with M&I Conservation, Agricultural Water Transfers, and
Compact Development and Transbasin Diversions. Discussion material for the
evaluation of these strategies is included below.
Additional strategies will be discussed in future meetings.