BOARD00444

• Board Meeting Date: 1/11/1961
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Colorado provide for the development of its
water resources by giving the better right to
the use of water to tqe appropriator who first
makes beneficial use of water. This principle
is not diluted by any provision for reserving
water for later use as among appropriators
within the State.

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As between ~olorado and other states so~e
provisions have ~~cq~e law which provide for tq~
reservation of the waters of Colorado for future
use as against other states.

Colorado has claimed the ownership of all
waters falling on or arising within its borders
and'-has not recogni~l'!d the. reservation of any
such waters in any other sovereignty except upon
principles of law attaching to rights in inter-
national or interstate streams.

with respect to the waters of the Colorado
River, Colorado and other states having rights
to its waters have recognized the principle
that regardless of prio~~ty in time beneficial
consumptive uses are to have and continue to
1bave a prior right to the use of those waters
over non-consuroptive uses such as for the gen-
eration of electric energy.

The Law of Colorado does not provide for
the disposition of its waters by any agency o.f,
or created under the authority of, the State of
Colorado except insofar as any such agency shall
become an appropriator of water under the Con-'
stitution and laws of the state.

The City and County of Denver has developed
water resources for the use of its inhabitants I
and the inhabitants outside its territorial
limits which constitute the Denver Metropolitan
Area. In the development of these water re-
so~ces Denver has adhered to the principles
above enunciated. Denver opposes departure from
the above principles unless such departure shall
be accomplished by amendment to the State Con-
stitution.