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subject conditional water right and will be beneficially used, and that this water supply project can and will be completed with diligence and within a reasonable time. 15. No Injury. Subject to the terms and conditions decreed herein, the change of water rights described herein will not injuriously affect the owner of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water right or a decreed conditional water right. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 16. To the extent they constitute legal conclusions, the foregoing Findings of Fact are incorporated herein. 17. Change of Rights. A "change of water right" includes a change of conditional water rights to new points of diversion or places of storage. C.R.S. § 37-92-103(5). Such a change shall be approved if it will not injuriously affect the owners of or persons entitled to use water under any vested water right or decreed conditional water right. C.R.S. § 37-92-305(3)(a). An adjudicated water right is entitled to maintenance of stream conditions existing at the time of its appropriation. Colorado Water Conservation Board v. City qf Central, 125 P.3d 424 (Colo. 2005). 18. Contemplated Draft of Conditional Water Rights. A change of a conditional water right is limited to the contemplated draft of the original appropriation. Twin Lakes Reservoir & Canal Co. v. City ofAspen, 568 P.2d 45 (Colo. 1977). 19. Substantiated Demands. A governmental water entity must establish a reasonable water supply planning period, substantiated population projections based on a normal rate of growth, the amount of water necessary to satisfy projected demands above its current supply, and that it can and will complete the appropriation within a reasonable time. Pagosa Area Water & Sanitation Dist. v. Trout Unlimited, 170 P.3d 307 (Colo. 2007). "A governmental agency need not be certain of its future water needs; it may conditionally appropriate water to satisfy a projected normal increase in population within a reasonable planning period." Id. at 315; C.R.S. § 37-92-103(3)(a)(1) (2008). JUDGMENT AND DECREE 20. The foregoing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law are incorporated herein. 21. Change of Water Rights. The change of water rights for the Pleasant Valley Project Rights is granted subject to the terms and conditions above stated, and the following additional conditions: CASE NO. 07CW61 FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND JUDGMENT AND DECREE PAGE 13