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<br />, - <br /> <br />Industrial users divert and consume a small percent of the water used in Colorado. By <br />modernizing equipment and production methods these users could reduce their consumption <br />and/or diversion rates. Generally, they do so as a business decision spurred by several <br />market factors. Typical industrial uses are junior to agricultural rights and must purchase <br />existing rights to create firm supplies. To keep water purchase costs low, processes are <br />designed with conservation in mind. Additionally, industrial and municipal return flows are <br />subject to stringent permitting requirements under the Clean Water Act. To reduce <br />investment in expensive waste water treatment facilities, production processes are designed <br />and updated to rninimi7e the amount of waste water produced. Still in a particular situation <br />the same arguments advanced in favor of an irrigation salvage or saved water right could <br />apply to older industrial plants. <br /> <br />9 <br />