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<br />B. PROJECT DESCRIPTION AND REQUIREMENTS <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Emphasis for the FY 2004 Secretarial Competitive 50-50 Challenge Grant <br />Program for Water 2025 will be directed toward proposals that can be <br />completed within 24 months and that reduce future conflicts through water <br />conservation, efficiency, and/or water markets. <br /> <br />B.1 ELIGIBLE PROJECTS <br /> <br />B.1.1 Task A - Water Banks and Water Markets <br /> <br />Implementation and use of water banks and water markets as mechanisms for preserving irrigated <br />agriculture and meeting other existing water supply needs providing such use is recognized by <br />applicable state and federal laws and authorities, Examples include, but are not limited to: <br /> <br />. Provide irrigators and other water users the opportunity to rent, lease or sell water for <br />agricultural or urban uses with the water right remaining in agriculture. <br /> <br />. Development of a water account that would provide a mechanism for willing buyers to purchase <br />water from willing sellers in order to meet important ecological restoration goals or other specific <br />goals and objectives that would avoid or reduce water conflicts. <br /> <br />B.1.2 Task B - New Technologies for Improved Water Management <br /> <br />Retrofitting and modernizing existing facilities to accomplish improved water management through <br />the use of new technologies with the expected results to be the achievement of additional <br />conserved water supplies. Examples include. but are not limited to: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. Automation of control structures with associated telemetry equipment for off-site control. <br /> <br />. Water management programs such as SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) to <br />remotely monitor and operate key river and canal facilities. <br /> <br />B.1.3 Task C - Canal Lining <br /> <br />Line currently unlined canals where there will be water savings and corresponding increases in <br />available water supplies from the installation of creative canal lining technologies. Examples <br />include, but are not limited to: <br /> <br />. New proven materials or technology. <br /> <br />. Converting open canals to pipeline. <br /> <br />8.1.4 Task D - Measuring Devices <br /> <br />Construction of new measuring devices that will allow water supplies to be more accurately <br />measured and accounted and will likely result in more efficient water use. Examples include, but <br />are not limited to: <br /> <br />. Installation of advanced water measurement equipment. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Water 2025: Preventing Crises and Conflict In the West <br /> <br />4 <br />