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Dealing with Drought- Adapting to a Changing Climate <br />Castle Rock, CO, October 13, 2009 <br />Group Synthesis <br />What information, planning strategies, etc. helped, or would have helped, you deal <br />with the impacts of the 2000s drought? What were the lessons learned through your <br />experience with the drought? <br />Jeff Lukas' Group <br />➢ Information that might have helped might have been there, but didn't know <br />about it (eg paleo data) <br />➢ No matter how much data we have, Mother Nature might change her mind: <br />issue of predictability <br />➢ Informational tools (upstream and downstream) for customer and board <br />understanding of climate and drought <br />➢ Need longer planning horizon than previously used <br />➢ No authority (water) over land use; will water supplies ever dictate no growth? <br />Nolan Doesken's Group <br />➢ Education for people dealing with climate and law etc... <br />➢ Better policies regarding landscape water use <br />➢ Better land use planning that takes water resources into account <br />➢ Contingency planning that takes critical yield, firm yield into account <br />➢ More and better collaboration <br />Christina Alvord & Taryn Hutchins - Cabibi's Group <br />➢ Better communication /relationships /collaborations leading up to the drought <br />➢ Drought plans that are comprehensive for municipalities; would have helped <br />relationships with other stakeholders if there had been a better plan in place <br />➢ Being able to react quickly in a logical fashion; policy hurdles that make quick <br />action difficult; communicating with customers and communities about what <br />needs to be done in a way that doesn't end up in a "boy that cried wolf <br />situation ": need to streamline decision - making <br />➢ Utilization of tools for monitoring; existed but weren't being used <br />➢ Different scenarios — didn't expect drought to evolve as quickly as it did (how do <br />we address this in the future); 1 -3 month outlook scenarios <br />➢ Regionalization at looking at impacts and the 1177 process <br />➢ Streamlining the drought trigger and water restrictions process <br />➢ Better understanding between conservation and demand hardening <br />➢ We rely too much on conservation to get us through drought <br />➢ Early warning and problems with buy -in (forecaster faith) <br />