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Conservation, Effideo cy, and Markets; <br />Improve Water Management and Use /Market -Based <br />Approaches To Head off Conflicts <br />In many cases, <br />implementation of new <br />water conservation and <br />efficiency improvements <br />through cooperative <br />partnerships will result in an <br />increased ability to meet otherwise <br />conflicting demands for water. <br />Most irrigation delivery systems were <br />built in the early 1900s and remain <br />virtually unchanged today. These <br />irrigation delivery systems can be <br />modernized and retrofitted with new <br />water management technologies. <br />Water districts can install cost - <br />effective water management <br />technologies, using low -cost solar - <br />powered components that allow <br />remote water measurement and <br />operation of deliveries through <br />irrigation delivery systems. The initial <br />investment in these systems, though <br />significantly less than in the past, can <br />still be burdensome to many water <br />delivery organizations. <br />6The Department of the Interior will <br />work with partners to retrofit and <br />modernize existing facilities to <br />,A. 14 <br />- <br />_ <br />Modernized Canal Structure <br />accomplish improved water <br />management through the use of new <br />technologies. <br />For example, with Reclamation's <br />assistance, irrigation districts have <br />installed automated control and remote <br />water measurement structures. <br />✓In Idaho's Payette Valley, nine <br />irrigation districts and canal companies <br />within the Payette River Water District <br />have automated 29 control structures, <br />installed more than 30 remote water <br />monitoring and measurement devices, <br />and modified a large dam on the river. <br />These improvements provided just <br />enough additional operational water <br />storage to vastly improve the efficiency <br />of river operations. <br />f `+ <br />