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Table of Contents <br />Water Rights and Decrees ....................................... ...12 <br />Water Courts ............................................. ...12 <br />Monthly Water Resumes ..................................... ...12 <br />Statements of Opposition .................................... ...12 <br />Water Rights ............................................. ...13 <br />Different Types of Decrees and Water Rights ...................... ...13 <br />Obtaining a Decree for a Conditional Water Right .................. ...13 <br />Access for Building and Operating Water Facilities .................. ...14 <br />Historical Excess in Granting Conditional Decrees <br />Brings about the "Can and Will" Requirement .................. ...15 <br />Exchanges ............................................... ...15 <br />Change, Sale, and Transfer of Water Rights ....................... ...15 <br />Augmentation Plans ........................................ ...16 <br />Administering, Managing and Regulating Water ...................... ...17 <br />Administration of Water Rights: Colorado Division of Water Resources .. ...17 <br />Exempt and Non-Exempt Wells ............................... ...17 <br />Substitute Supply Plans ..................................... ...17 <br />The Workings of a River Call ................................. ...18 <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board ............................ ...19 <br />Local and Regional Water Management Agencies ................... ...19 <br />Water Storage ............................................. ...20 <br />Trans-mountain Diversions and Basin of Origin Protection ............ ...20 <br />Water Quality Control Commission and Division ................... ...21 <br />Interstate and Federal Law ...................................... ...22 <br />Interstate Compacts, Equitable Apportionment Decrees, and Treaties .... ...22 <br />Colorado River Compact of 1922 .............................. ...23 <br />Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of 1948 ..................... ...23 <br />Arkansas River Compact of 1948 .............................. ...23 <br />Federal Reserved Water Rights ................................ ...24 <br />Environmental Protection .................................... ...25 <br />Colorado's Water Future ........................................ ...27 <br />Chronology ................................................. ...28 <br />Glossary of Terms ............................................ ...31 <br />References .................................................. ...33 <br />The availability o f our most precious <br />resource -water - is often token for <br />granted in the semi-arid west. Times o f <br />drought and flood focus attention on water <br />resources, but rt is our system o f laws and <br />regulations that protect individual and <br />community rights. <br />CITIZENS GUIDE TO COLORADO WATER LAW 3 <br />