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is some environmental litigation over the project's compliance, or lack of compliance with some of the laws I have mention~d. Despite the project's sacred status, Jeris Danielson and David Walker are quoted in the Denver Post Article as saying that they are certain there is not enough money to finish Animas-La Plata, as designed. If the state and local entities cannot come up with the roughly $200 million to finish a sacred Colorado project, where will Colorado ever come up with $4 billion dollars to develop the remaining 800,000, of which Animas-La Plata represents only a part? Dam Sites Second on my list is dam sites. These eight factors are in no particular order, although money seemed to come first, somehow. Most of the dam sites have been used. Those that remain are in some pretty dicey locations from a water developer's perspective. They are in or above wilderness areas, or proposed wilderness areas where water project development-is off-limits. They are above the habitat, or in the habitat of endangered fish, where very severe constraints effect any further depletions. They are above some very valuable stretches of recreational river, where the rafting industry has set down its foot and is likely to be hard to budge. For example, West Water Canyon on the Colorado, just over the Colorado border into Utah is a wonderful stretch of rafting river that is booming with tourist activity and rafting outfitters. This lack of dam sites is the second constraint on consumptive development of Colorado's unused share. Legal Constraints The third force, I eluded to earlier, are the legal constraints. The laws, and there are many of them, could be the subject of many more presentations. My point is that the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, and the Wilderness Act, are some of the laws which have very real effects on how much water a proj ect is allowed to deplete from a stream, if any, and the conditions and costs that would be placed upon those depletions. The costs and conditions often discourage the ultimate development, or the follow-through on a project. There are other kinds of legal constraints. For example, reserved rights relates back to wilderness bills. The Arizona Wilderness Bill, a couple of years back, established reserved rights for the very low areas on the Colorado and its tributary explicitly in the legislation. Another legal constraint determines where water has to be flowing in-streams and how much. There are state acts, and Colorado has one. Most of the western states have in-stream-flow laws that affect this questions of how much water is in the stream and how much can be taken out. Economics The fourth constraint is economics. I am referring to economics as the relative value of water left in the stream versus water storage. Tourism, of which rafting and fishing are important components, is a strong force in Colorado's economy. It is closing in on first place in the other Upper Basin states. This has changed people's perspective on how important it is to leave water in the 21