8012

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8012
• Author: Grand Canyon Trust.
• Title: Colorado River Workshop, issues, ideas, and directions ‎(February 26-28, 1996 Phoenix, Arizona)‎ An open forum for discussion of management issues between managers, water users, and stakeholders of the Colorado River basin.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: 1996.
• Copyright Material: NO

environmental quality. Several participants pointed out
that water efficiency should not be a goal in itself, but
should be seen as a way to reach these other goals. The
groups next considered how certain interests are
impacted when water is saved in one sector for use in
another. Examples included instream water users (e.g.
fish and wildlife), other water rights holders, and soci-

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ety in general. This led to a discussion of the obstacles
to water efficiency improvements, with the groups
describing political/cultural objections to changing
water use, high costs of implementing improvements,
and legal obstacles to change (including interstate allo-
cation issues and unresolved federal and Indian
reserved water rights).