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<br />As a result of transfers becoming more reallocational in <br />nature, it may be necessary for different kinds of transfers to <br />be considered under different criteria. For example, issues may <br />differ between an interbasin transfer, such as from the Colorado <br />Basin to the Front Range, and an intrabasin transfer, such as <br />from the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District to the <br />Denver metropolitan area. These transfers, and their ilIlpacts, <br />usually cross political boundaries: counties, cities, water <br />service organizations, water divisions, other political entities. <br /> <br />Legislation to address out-of-basin transfer issues might <br />overlap with existing laws and regulations, such as water <br />management practices and land use. Any laws developed to <br />regulate transfers or their effects will have to be crafted to <br />dovetail with priorities already established by these laws and <br />regulations. <br /> <br />These characteristics have thrown many water management <br />decisions away from simply allocating unappropriated water to <br />reallocating water currently in use. This has added to the <br />complexity of water transfers in that very often the existing Use <br />creates benefits to third parties that are difficult to consider <br />under current law. <br /> <br />"'. : -;;. ..';..,":.,," <br />.~ " .~. . .,- <br />QUestions: In what way do thecharacteriStics:.:"<. <br />. of these different kinds of ''transfers.'dif'fe:c:i';:' :: <br /> <br /> <br />"~;=~~~.. <br /> <br /> <br />compiled and analyzed for guidance?'" "',':,," , <br /> <br />DlO.GIHG COHPETING DEMANDS <br /> <br />Colorado's water management system has developed as water <br />needs have evolved. Some of the newest needs have not yet been <br />incorporated into the management structure in a manner acceptable <br />to many of the people affected by management decisions. The <br />following is a description of the management structure as it <br />currently operates, the issues,that it does address and the <br />issues it has yet to consider fully. <br /> <br />5 <br />