BOARD02469

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/2005
• Description: CWCB Director's Report
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

In addition, the following activities were completed since the May 2005 Board meeting to
facilitate and organize outreach activities that will be performed by the Office to help
provide technical support to water users and promote the Office's Grant Program:

. Finalize the Water Conservation Plan Development Guidance Document
. Finalize the electronic version of the Water Conservation Plan Development
Guidance Document and post to the CWCB web site.
. Prepare fact sheet, talking points for staff, and a brochure related to the Grant
Program
. Prepare frequently asked questions (FAQs) for staff use related to the Grant
Program
. Prepare calendar of activities related to promoting the Grant Program
. Develop database identifying covered entities and their estimated retail water use,
population, status of water conservation plan review by the Office, and status of
loans with the CWCB and the CWRPDA. Contact information including e-mail
addresses are included in the database.

In the next month, the Office will be sending broad e-mails to those covered entities in
the database base, plus those entities that may soon become covered entities. These e-
mails will include the fact sheets and other information that will be used to help educate
covered entities and promote the Office's programs. In addition, the Office will have 500
copies of the Guidance Document made on CD for distribution at conferences,
workshops, and other appropriate gatherings of water users.

In addition, the Office will be developing guidelines as required by House Bill 05-1254
for Board review and adoption. Once adopted, these guidelines will be posted on the
CWCB web site.

Colorado Foundation for Water Education Event List: On July 19, a conference
entitled "Managing Watersheds for Human and Natural Impacts: Engineering.
Ecological. and Economic Challenges" will be held. This will be the ninth in a series of
specialty conferences focused on watershed management. The conference was first held
in Billings, Montana, in 1965 and has been repeated every five years since. This year's
conference will be held east of the Mississippi River, where the problems and challenges
of urbanization and sprawl are particularly acute. For further information, see the
Colorado Water Foundation website at ~':Y!:Y!:sJy!:",grg

On July 27, a workshop entitled "Thi.rty Years Ago, \\'110 Would Ever Have Imagined?"
will be presented. When the Water Workshop began 30 years ago, Colorado's population
was less than 60 percent what it is today, big water projects were still under construction
throughout the West, recreation was barely recognized as a "beneficial use," the dry
winter of '76 & Carter's Hit List still lay in the future, "75,000,000 acre-feet over any 10-
year period" was still the Law of the Colorado River, and almost no one had heard of
global warming. Time for a "30-year Reality Check": Have we gained, lost or just held
out own in the challenges of developing Water in the West? And what can we imagine

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