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<br />GJ;..JU <br /> <br />appeared before this Board on previous occa- <br />sions. I don't know whether Cese has anything <br />to add to this or not. If you do, would you <br />come forward and speak into the microphone?" <br /> <br />MR. OSBORNE: <br /> <br />"Basically, all I have to say is this, <br />that we are confronted with a river system <br />that arises in Colorado and basically our water <br />is something that can be used. In itself it <br />is an indestructible commodity and it comes <br />down from the times past when our people had <br />to make do with what they could do and we now <br />find that we probably have got more usable use <br />out of water than we are now making if we could <br />just simply improve the efficiency of use. By <br />that I mean that we need to have the 'water <br />available at the time of need. Mainly we have <br />developed a system of inefficiency as shown <br />inadvertently, but it does work out to allow <br />the South Platte basin, particularly below the <br />Kersey site, to live on return flows. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I fully realize that in municipal use, in <br />industrial use, and in irrigation use, the <br />operation of producing a crop or of producing <br />a commodity industrially, is inefficient as <br />far as the quantity of water is concerned in <br />use, but as far as the consumptive - the net <br />consumptive use - is held to a certain figure <br />commensurate with the activities being per- <br />formed. Now, if there is any way that the <br />inefficiency of use can be turned to an efficien- <br />cy of use and reuse, we've got a tremendous <br />amount of additional water that can be used <br />constructively in the South Platte River. <br /> <br />I do think this, that it does take an <br />overall study of the river from the beginning <br />to the end. From where the water rises and <br />the times at which the water comes. Now we <br />have, at this time, and will have in the future, <br />great fluctuations of streamflow. Some years <br />it will be three times what it will be other <br />years and they are not spaced in any order; <br />there's no particular cycle or anything of that <br />kind. To make use of that sort of water, we've <br />got to have either storage cf surface or even <br /> <br />I <br />