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Demand Side Strategies Supply Side Strategies Municipal and Industrial Reuse, Recycling, and Desalination Conservation Agricultural Transfers: Traditional Permanent Agricultural Conservation, Transfers and Alternatives to Traditional Transfers Efficiency, and Alternative Optimizing Existing Storage and Delivery Systems Cropping Patterns and New In-basin Storage that can Meet Multiple Density Development Uses while being Sensitive to our Environmental/Recreational Needs Energy: Oil Shale/Biofuels Optimum Use of Groundwater Supplies Coordinated Reservoir Operations Outline the Benefits and Ri sks Associated with Full Compact Development Coordinated Infrastructure Development and Opportunities for Shar ed Infrastructure Integrated Management of Ground & Surface Water These strategies are further described as follows: Demand Side Strategies Municipal and Industrial Conservation – Document and quantify savings from water conservation. Quantify water savings from th e conservation best management practices identified in SWSI II (reduced lawn size, re bates, metering, etc.). Determine if demand reductions are permanent using data from providers. Use a Simplified Water Allocation Model to test the reliability of different conservation best management practices. Consider developing a statewide gallons per capita per day number a nd/or extending the "use only what you need" campaign statewide. Identify the opportunities and chal lenges for the use of water conservation as a source of future wa ter supply (identify st orage and conveyance needs, institutional challenges, etc.) Agricultural Conservation, Efficienc y, and Alternative Cropping Patterns – Build on Colorado Agricultural Water Alliance's white paper recommendations (Section 7 of the February, 2008 Draft Report). Consider conduc ting a basin-by-basin analysis of the opportunities for agricultural water conservati on. Evaluate potentia l water conservation measures applicable to the basin (redu ced nonproductive consumptive use, changed crop type, changed irrigation timing, deficit irrigati on, etc.), the potential use of the conserved water, and the institutional and infrastructure ch allenges to using conserved water as a source of future water supply. Utilize and build on projects funded through CWCB's Alternative Agricultural Water Transfer Methods Competitive Grant Program. Density Development – Evaluate the consumptive use of municipal water based on different densities of development. Gather data on water use per different residential density development from water providers and qua ntify water savings based on two density development scenarios. Energy: Oil Shale/Biofuels – Look at sector-related demands fr om oil and biofuels to see if conservation can be applied to these demands . This analysis will be performed at a conceptual level, using information from the Yampa/Colorado 179 Energy Grant Study and the data from the Bureau of Land Management in their Environmental Impact Statement process. 2