<br />82. Boettcher, AJ., 1971, Evaluation of the water supply at six sites in the Curecanti Recreation
<br />Area, southwestern Colorado: u.s. Geological Survey Open-File Report 71-005, 28 p.
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<br />83. Boettcher,'AJ., 1972, Ground-water occurrence in northern and central parts of western
<br />Colorado: Denver, Colo., Colorado Water Resources Circular 15, 25 p.
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<br />84. Bombolakis, E.G., 1959, Geology of the Hot Sulphur Springs-Parshall area of Middle Park,
<br />Grand County, Colorado: Golden, Colo., Colorado School of Mines, Master's thesis, 146 p.
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<br />85. Booker, J.F., and Young, RA, 1991, Economic impacts of alternative water allocation
<br />institutions in the Colorado River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey Report G-1644, 103 p.
<br />[Available from National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161 as NTIS Report
<br />PB-92161389/XAB.]
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<br />Colorado River water is the dominant water for much of the southwestern United
<br />States, satisfying agricultural; municipal, and industrial needs. Basin water is now
<br />fully utilized and new demands, particularly in Arizona and rapidly growing
<br />Southern California, will cause increasing pressure to reallocate basin water.
<br />Nonconsumptive uses of C.olorado River water (hydropower, salinity control)
<br />physically interact with consumptive uses and are also of increasing economic
<br />significance. Water transfers wOlildtequire foregoing some existing uses and would
<br />be possible only with significant institutional changes in the set of compacts, state
<br />laws, and court tlecisions which together control allocation of Colorado River water.
<br />The objective of the work is to evaluate policies for increasing beneficial use of basin
<br />water resources. This is achieved by estimating consumptive and nonconsumptive
<br />use benefits using a nonlinear economic optimization model employing a national
<br />perspective. Water demand sectors are linked with river flows to find allocations
<br />maximizing net economic surplus under alternative institutions. All major use sectors
<br />are integrated in an economic-hydrologic optimization model. Solutions are found
<br />under priorities governing present allocation and under increased intra- and
<br />interstate trade between existing consumptive and nonconsumptive users. Model
<br />solutions are presented using estimates of present and future economic demands
<br />under two levels of basin water flow, one representing the long-term mean, while the
<br />second simulates serious drought. Within-state water transfers are found to be
<br />particularly effective for increasing net consumptive use benefits during droughts.
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<br />86. Bowden, Charles, 1975, The impact of energy development on water resources in arid lands-
<br />Literature review and annotated bibliography (information paper): Bureau of Reclamation
<br />Report OWRT -W-189(4258)(1), 288 p. [Available from National Technical Information Service,
<br />Springfield, VA 22161 as NTIS Report PB-24O 008/3.]
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<br />Water is basic to energy conversion systems, natural and man-made. Consequences
<br />of energy extraction and conversion in arid lands where water is scarce are explored.
<br />The historical past is utilized as a record for casting modern development plans into
<br />perspective; the worldwide growth in energy consumption rates is considered as the
<br />motive force behind many current energy projects in arid lands. Energy sources (coal,
<br />oil, gas, oil shale, solar energy, alternative energy sources, fission, fusion, and
<br />geothermal) are reviewed in terms of their consequences on the air, land, water, and
<br />inhabitants of such regions. Two rivers, the Colorado and the Missouri, provide
<br />small-scale models of the rewards and hazards of heavily exploiting water-short
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