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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

transfer water from the Fort Lyon Canal system. As the Board moved
forward with both of those efforts, they realized that those efforts
were driven by the need to address two issues: (1) the need to provide
additional water supplies for Colorado, much of that need exists in
the Front Range area, particularly in metropolitan areas, and there is
a need to look at alternatives for meeting those needs; and (2)
because Front Range needs drive Colorado needs there is a need to look
at basin-of-origin issues, and how those issues can be resolved.
Those are essentially the two topics that this conference will focus
on.

What are the basic purposes of the conference? These are what I
see, from the discussions at the Water Conservation Board, over the
last year: (1) There is a need to facilitate the sharing of
information with regard to these issues -- metropolitan water supply
and basin-of-origin issues. (2) There is a need to identify barriers
that exist to Colorado meeting its water needs. (3) There is a need
to identify solutions that will lessen the divisions that exist
between us, and will allow us to seek the commonalities that we in
fact have. (4) Finally, there is a very important function of this
conference, and that is to provide guidance to the State of Colorado,
to the Water Conservation Board, to the Department of Natural
Resources, as to what role the state should play in terms of
addressing these issues of metropolitan water supply and basin of
origin.

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