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<br />,I <br />I~ <br /> <br />) <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />Board Office: The Colorado Water Conservation Board's office is located at 1313 Sherman <br />Street, 7th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. The phone number is (303) 866-3441. The facsimile <br />number is (303) 866-4474. The Board's website is http://www.cwcb.state.co.us. <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB): A division of the Colorado Department of <br />Natural Resources, the CWCB was created in 1937 for the purpose of aiding in the protection and <br />development of waters of the state. The Board's authority and role is defined in 9 37-60-101, et <br />seq., CRS. The Mission Statement of the CWCB is to conserve, devclop, protect, and manage <br />Colorado's water for present and future generations. <br /> <br />Covered entity: means each municipality, agency, utility, including any privately owned utility, <br />or other publicly owned entity with a legal obligation to supply, distribute, or otherwise provide <br />water at retail to domestic, commercial, industrial, or public facility customers, and that has a <br />total demand for such customers of two thousand acre-feet or more. <br /> <br />Growth Rate: The total increase or decrease in population during a given period divided by the <br />current population. <br /> <br />Leak Detection: A systematic search for water loss in a delivery system or at an end users <br />location. <br /> <br />Metering: The measurement of water use with a meter to generate data on actual customer use, <br />which is often used for billing purposes. <br /> <br />Office: means the Office of Water Conscrvation and Drought Planning created in section 937- <br />60-124. <br /> <br />Plan elements: means thosc components of Water Conservation Plans that address water-saving <br />measures and programs, implementation review, water-saving goals, and the actions a covered <br />entity shall take to develop, implement, monitor, review, and revise its Water Conservation Plan. <br /> <br />Planning Entity: means any municipality, agency, utility, including any privately owned utility, <br />or other publicly owncd entity with a legal obligation to supply, distribute, or otherwise provide <br />water at retail to domestic, commercial, industrial, or public facility customers that has a total <br />demand for such customers of less than two thousand acre- feet. <br /> <br />Public facility: means any facility operatcd by an instrument of government for the benefit of the <br />public, including, but not limited to, a government building, park or other recreational facility, <br />school, college, university, or other educational institution, highway, hospital, or stadium. <br /> <br />Retail Water Delivery: means all water sales made by the covered or planning entity except <br />wholesale water sales which are made through installments and credit sales and the exchange of <br />property as well as the sale thereof for money; every such transaction, conditional or otherwise, <br />for a consideration, constituting a sale; and the sale or furnishing of water. <br /> <br />Water Conservation: means water use efficiency, wise water use, water transmission and <br />distribution system efficiency, and supply substitution. The objective of water conservation is a <br />long-term increase in the productive use of water supply in order to satisfy water supply needs <br />without compromising desired water services. <br /> <br />2 <br />