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<br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br />. <br /> <br />GUNNISONCOUNTRVTIl\fES <br /> <br />Thursday, February 5,2004 <br /> <br />'Water neeas eipet!ied <br />: to grow 60 percent by <br />" <br />,!2030 <br />j,', <br /> <br />Early findings of the Statewide " <br />. Water Supply Initiative (SWSI) .; <br />, show that Colorado's cities and,":", <br />industrial users will need an ad<~' <br />ditional 708,000 acre feet oct: <br />, water by the year 2030. "ii' <br />: This is a 60-percent increase inti,! <br />: municipal and industrial de'~;~:'; <br />, mand, enough water to supplya~:: <br />! new city of more than 2.5 milliOli("'; <br />people in Colorado. /",: <br />Ihe analysis shows that mui;?::-,!. <br />nicipal and industrial demand fof:>l <br />water will increase in every on~,',:: <br />of Colorado's eight river basins::'''":_: <br />over the next 30 years. More tha~:".', <br />80 percent of the increased de-,,/ <br />mand, meanwhile, will come in. . <br />the South Platte and Arkansas''., <br />.'" <br />Basins. .~ '. . <br />The next phase of the historic . <br />study is to examine the variety d.f~:::'~ <br />solutions that can be used t~.;,~; <br />l meet this demand. . :~~~~ <br /> <br />. <br />