08 Annual Report

• Title: 2008 Annual Report
• Date: 11/1/2008
• Interbasin CC - Doc Type: Annual Legislative Report

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These goals may individually conflict. However, by
evaluating all the goals together, more sustainable
water supply strategies can be achieved.
The IBCC discussed and generally agreed on the
following draft Vision Goals:
1. Meet municipal and industrial (M?tl) demands.
2. Meet agricultural demands.
3. Meet Colorado's environment and recreation
demands.
4. Encourage cooperation between water supply
planners and land use planners.
5. Encourage more cooperation among all
Colorado water users.
6. Optimize existing and future water supplies
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a. Considering conservation as a baseline water
supply strategy.
b. Minimizing non-beneficial consumptive use
(evaporation, non-native phreatophytes,
etc. ).
c. Maximizing successive uses of legally
reusable water.
d. Maximizing use of existing and new in-basin
supplies.
7. Promote cost-effectiveness by:
a. Allocating costs to all beneficiaries fairly.
b. Achieving benefits at the lowest cost.
c. Providing viable financing mechanisms,
including local, state, and federal funding/
financing.
d. Mitigating third-party economic impacts.
8. Minimize the net energy used to supply water,
including both the energy used and/or
generated with raw water delivery, and the
energy used for treatment.
9. Protect cultural values by:
a. Maintaining and improving the quality of life
unique to each basin.
b. Maintaining open space.
10. Provide operational flexibility and coordinated
infrastructure.
11. Promote increased fairness when water is
moved between basins by:
a. Benefiting both the area of origin and the
area of use.
b. Minimizing the adverse economic and
environmental impacts of future water
projects and water transfers.
' Basin Roundtables have also identified conservation,
use of groundwater, and development of
unappropriated water as components of optimizing
water supplies. These could be categorized as a goal
but will be directly dealt with in the evaluation of
Strategies.
12. Comply with all applicable laws and
regulations, meet all applicable compact
obligations, and protect water rights including
the right of water right owners to market their
water, while recognizing some institutional
changes may be needed to implement certain
strategies.
13. Educate all Coloradoans on the importance of
water, and the need to conserve, manage, and
plan for needs of this and future generations.
Water Supply Strategies
The third part of a statewide vision for Colorado's
water supply future is 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 draft list of
strategies for further evaluation. These included:
Demand Side Strategies
? Growth, Land Use, and Density Development
? M?tl Conservation
? Agricultural Conservation (non-beneficial
losses), 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
Consumptive and Nonconsumptive Needs
? Colorado River Compact Development
? Transbasin Diversions that Benefit the Area of
Origin and the Area of Use
? 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.