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North Platte Basin Roundtable Meeting Minutes, 09.23.2008 <br />The Public Education and Participation Outreach Committee (from the IBCC), along with <br />the CO Foundation for Water Education, is going to distribute a survey to each <br />roundtable on their educational needs. Curran will distribute the survey when she gets it. <br />Jeff Crane is still building his list of water-related and water-interested non-profits to <br />keep updated on IBCC activities, if any roundtable members have additions to this list of <br />North Platte groups, please contact Curran. <br />New Business: <br />Kent C: The Gunnison Basin has put together a presentation on what they are doing, do <br />we want them to come up and do a presentation to this roundtable? <br />Hal H: Yes <br />Barb V: I would like the Arkansas to do one also, if that is possible. <br />Set Next Meeting Dates: <br />October 21, 2008, 7-9 pm <br />December 2, 2008, 3-5 pm <br />Barb V: What's left in the Basin WSRA? <br />Kent C: About $150,000, assuming the pine beetle project gets funded in November. <br />No other business. <br />Meeting Adjourned. <br />ENDNOTES <br />' After two rounds of discussions, the IBCC generally agrees that: <br />1. Colorado needs to provide an adequate water supply for our citizens and the environment. In doing so, <br />the status quo approach to water supply will not lead to a desirable fixture for Colorado. <br />2. Water supply in Colorado is transitioning from an era of undeveloped resources to an era of managing a <br />developed resource. Future water decisions will increasingly involve reallocating `rater between uses. <br />3. Water is not an independent issue. Colorado's water supply fixture is tied to the larger economic, <br />demographic, and cultural trends of our state. <br />4. A range of strategies are needed help meet our state's consumptive and nonconsumptive water supply <br />needs. These include a combination of demand side strategies such as conservation, supply side strategies <br />such as storage and agricultural transfers, and regional coordination strategies. <br />5. The IBCC should work with the Colorado Water Conseivation Board (CWCB) to examine the <br />trade[] offs, risks, and uncertainties associated with different strategies and combination of strategies. <br />6. A statewide vision statement should be developed in combination with an evaluation of water supply <br />strategies.