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. . . Ou2208 reservoir system, minimize damage to property and natural resources, protect public health and safety, and reduce the threat of loss of human life. To provide for the encroachment that had occurred in the Floodway would be inconsistent with The Law of the River and would require that additional existing reservoir storage space be dedicated to flood control. This would seriously diminish conservation storage unless additional water storage facilities were constructed to replace the amount of water storage lost to flood control. The Congress found this unacceptable and provided in Section 9 of the Act provisions to make certain that The Law of the River and current river and reservoir management programs are not affected by the Act. Besides the Floodway Act, other major steps have been implemented since 1983 to provide for more effective river management and to further ensure public safety. These include the installation of the National Weather Service's Colorado River Flood Warning System, a real-time hydrometeorological data network and state-of-the-science hydrologic model and data management system; improved runoff forecast capabilities; use of a broader band of uncertainty in runoff forecasts in determining required reservoir flood control space; improved reservoir spillways; river bank stabilization, and levee and river channel improvements; and the formulation and implementation, by the Governors' representatives of the Basin states and federal agencies involved and responsible for river operations, of a recommended process for the development of annual operating plans that provide for more effective river management and use of water under full and near-full reservoir conditions, consistent with The Law of the River. II-3