PUB00138

• Year: 1995
• Title: Senate Joint Resolution 94-32 Concerning the Management, Conservation, and Preservation of the Water
• CWCB Section: Water Conservation & Drought Planning
• Author: DWR
• Description: Report containing tables and figures that illustrate Colorado's water supplies.
• Publications - Doc Type: Tech Report

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WHEREAS, Studies made of the water supply and water needs
of various portions of the State need to be collected and
considered as a whole for the efficient management,
conservation, and preservation of the water resources of the
State; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Fifty-ninth General
Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives
concurring herein:

That a joint report be prepared by the State Engineer and
the Colorado Water Conservation Board, which joint report shall:

(1) Inventory the information readily available for each
water division of this State on the following matters:

(a) The water supply currently available to meet existing
needs and the historical and existing levels of water use and
the extent of reliance on renewable and nonrenewable supplies
of water;

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(b) The record of drought periods and the amount of water
supply available in times of drought;

(c) The anticipated shortages in water supplies in times
of extended drought to meet the existing and reasonably
projected water needs of the State's citizens;

(d) The extent to which existing and reasonably
anticipated future needs of the State as a whol e are not or
cannot be met by water apportioned to the State by interstate
,compacts or equitable apportionment decrees;

(e) Any other information that is reasonably available
and that would assist the State in making ,informed decisions
about the efficient management, conservation, and preservation
of its scarce water resources;

(2) Identify the nature and extent of the information
needed to enable the State to make informed decisions regarding
efficient management, conservation, and preservation of its
scarce water resources;

(3) Set forth a plan with cost estimates and timelines
to obtain the information identified in subsection (2).

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