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. . . House Bill 1169, passed in 1989, was short titled "State Projects Water Conservation in Landscaping Act." The act makes determinations as to the limited supply and increasing demand of water and the state's policy to promote conservation and enhance water use efficiency. It sets water conservation requirements for public entities to follow in public buildings and landscaping. In 1990, House Bill 90-1106 was passed, short titled "Water Metering Act." It required every water supplier in Colorado to implement metered water delivery and billing service according to a schedule established in the act, with full metering accomplished on or before January 1, 2009. Exempted are communities receiving water from free flowing springs, raw water piped irrigation systems in communities with separate water piped irrigation and domestic systems, and communities under sanction by the state health department for water quality standards. The "Water Conservation Act of 1991," House Bill 91-1154, was intended to enhance the efficiency with which water is used to meet end uses. It added water conservation as an explicit function of the CWCB; established the Office of Water Conservation and authorized staff and budget; authorized funds for a pilot program of incentive grants to demonstrate the benefits of water efficiency; required entities that provide over 2,000 acre-feet of water annually to develop a water use efficiency pIan to be approved by the CWCB and/or the Colorado Water Resources and Power Development Authority (CWRPDA) before being eligible for financial assistance; established parameters for these plans including a list of nine measures to be analyzed. The measures to be considered include: water-efficient fixtures and appliances, including toilets, urinals, showerheads, and faucets; low water-use landscapes and efficient irrigation; water- efficient industrial and commercial water-using processes; water reuse systems, both potable and nonpotable; distribution system leak repair; dissemination of information regarding water use efficiency measures, including by public education, customer water use audits, and water- saving demonstrations; water rate structures designed to encourage water use efficiency in a fiscally responsible manner; regulatory measures, including standards for the use of water use efficiency fixtures and landscapes, and ordinances, codes, or other law designed to encourage water use efficiency; and incentives to implement water use efficiency techniques, including rebates to customers or others to encourage the installation of water use efficiency measures. Inventory of Water Conservation Plans A key step in developing a strategy for water conservation planning across the state is to fully understand what exists and what role the State of Colorado has had in defining pIan content and implementation. To this end, all CWCB-approved water conservation plans were reviewed and analyzed for content, and several entities were called and briefly surveyed about their experiences in conservation planning. The methods for review and analysis and results generated are presented in this section. Who is Who: A Note on Terminology "Covered Entity" is defined in House Bi1l91-1l54 as "each municipality. agency. utility. including any privately owned utility. or other publicly owned entity- with a legal obligation to supply, distribute, or otherwise provide water at retail to domestic, commercial, industrial, or public facility customers, and which has a total demand for such customers of two thousand acre--feet or more in calendar years 1989 or thereafter." IIEntity" and IIWater Provider" are used interchangeably in this document with the same definition as that above without, however, the reference to a threshold of total acre-feet water provision. 2