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?` <br />? ? ? ? <br />Water Supply Strategies <br />The third part of a statewide vision for Colorado's water supply f uture is water supply <br />strategies. During their May and August meetings, the IBCC discussed which water supply <br />strategies may help meet our state's consumptive and nonconsumptive water supply needs. <br />They agreed on a draft list of strategies for further evaluation. These included: <br />Demand Side Strategies <br />¦ Growth, Land Use, and Density Development <br />¦ MCI Conservation <br />¦ Agricultural Conservation (non-beneficial losses), Efficiency, and Alternative Cropping <br />Patterns <br />¦ Reduction in Water Demands for Energy Development (Traditional and Renewable Energy) <br />Supply Side Strategies <br />¦ Reuse and Desalination <br />¦ Agricultural Transfers: Traditional Permanent Transfers and Alternatives to Traditional <br />Transfers <br />¦ Optimizing/ Rehabilitating Existing Storage and Delivery Systems <br />¦ New In-basin Storage that can Meet Multiple Consumptive and Nonconsumptive Needs <br />¦ Colorado River Compact Development <br />¦ Transbasin Diversions that Benefit the Area of Origin and the Area of Use <br />¦ Coordinated Reservoir Operations, Infrastructure Development, and Opportunities for <br />Shared Infrastructure <br />¦ Integrated Management of Groundwater and Surf ace Water including the optimum use of <br />groundwater and surface water supplies and the use of aquifer storage and recovery <br />At the July CWCB Board meeting, the CWCB Board reviewed this draft list and asked staff to <br />begin evaluating these strategies. <br />OctoberMeetin? <br />Review and agree to changes. <br />7