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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7777
• Author: Ward, R. C.
• Title: Proceedings 1993 Colorado Water Convention, Front Range Water Alternatives and Transfer of Water from One Area of the State to Another, January 4-5, 1993, Denver, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

1993 Colorado Water Convention

SECTION II

ABSTRACTS 01' PRESENTATIONS WITH PARTICIPANT QUESTIONS

Luncheon Panel: Alternative Instituti.onal Approaches
to Metropolitan Water Planning

Moderator: John Buechner, Chancellor, University of Colorado Denver
[A transcript of John Buechner's remarks was not available for this report]

Panel Members: Duane Georgeson, Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California
Marshall Kaplan, Graduate School of Public Affairs,
Univerity of Colorado at Denver

KEN SALAZAR: Before we have this panel, I would like to introduce
members of the General Assembly who are with us here today. May I
have the members of the Senate and the House who are here please stand
up. State Representative Tony Hernandez, who represents the southwest
part of the city and county of Denver; Representative Mike Salaz from
Las Animas County in southeastern Colorado; Representative Bob
Eisenach from Fort Morgan, Representative Bud Moellenberg, who
represents the district Doug Lutzel used to represent; Jack Taylor,
just elected to the House of Representatives; Senator Don Ament,
Chairman of t-he Senate Ag. Committee; Senator Pat Pascoe, who
represents a piece of the City and County of Denver; Senator Linda
Powers from southwestern Colorado who lives in Crested Butte and is a
member of the Senate Ag. Committee; Representative Lewis Entz from the
San Luis Valley; re-elected Representative Bob Shoemaker from the
Canon City area. Lets give them all a strong round of applause.

This next panel was put together with John Buechner, Chancellor
of the University of Colorado at Denver and Marshall Kaplan, Dean of
the Graduate School of Public Affairs at UCD. As we put together the
panel, one of the suggestions in the early agendas was that it was
important that we hear experiences from out of state, and it so
happened that we had been in California with a group of people touring
the lower Colorado River. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California is doing some very inventive things in terms of how they
have been working with agriculture in the Palo Verde irrigation
district as well as the Imperial Irrigation District. I thought that
it was ~portant for all of us to hear about cooperative arrangements
between municipal water providers and agricultural water users that
have the consent of the agricultural community and at the same time
are enhancing the water supply for the metropolitan area. At the same
time I thought it would be important for us to hear the history of how
the Metropolitan Water district of Southern California was organized,
and how they worked with some of their member entities. John Buechner
and Marshall Kaplan have been involved in metropolitan cooperation
issues for a long time and are some of the key leaders within our
community. So help me welcome John Buechner who will moderate this
panel.

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