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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8271.300
Description
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Water Division
5
Date
3/1/1981
Title
Feasibility of Financial Incentives to Reuse Low Quality Waters in the Colorado River Basin
Water Supply Pro - Doc Type
Report/Study
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<br />w <br />c:f) <br />l'\.) <br />c:.o <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />unconsumed water from most energy processes is treated and returned to <br />the River system, if more storage facilities are built, and if water <br />use in general is optimized. The study concludes that several struc~ <br />tural and management actions must be taken to provide sufficient water <br />for the existing and potential uses. <br /> <br />It became obvious in the course of the preceding studies that I <br />increasing diversions and consumptions of Colorado River Basin water <br />would increase salinity and ~erbate the ~at,,-,,_._suPJ>Jx_sh,,-~gs>, unless <br />new industrial users were required me-encouraged to optimize water use j <br />and exercise particular care in preventing salt concentrating. One of <br />the more desirable methods of maximizing water use and limiting salt <br />c~ncentration would be through creating a financial incentive system <br />to encourage developing industries to make extensive use of low quality <br />water. This would withdraw contamination from the river while leaving <br />better quality water in stream to meet the salinity standards at Impe~ <br />rial Dam. <br /> <br />Purpose of the study, The basic purpose of this study is to <br />conduct an analysis of the cost effectiveness of a program of economic <br />incentives to promote consumptive reuse of low quality (primarily sa- <br />line) waters in the Colorado River Basin by the electric utility indus- <br />try, The specific objectives of the research are: <br /> <br />. To identify, primarily through a literature review, the <br />penalty costs to CRB (primarily Lower Basin) water users <br />now using saline waters for agriculture and domestic uses. <br /> <br />. To identify, from available data, the potential economic <br />benefits of a reduction in salinity, such as increased <br />agricultural production or fewer domestic damages. <br /> <br />. To explore the institutional and regulatory environment <br />in which the electricity generating industry must oper- <br />ate and to examine the fiscal experience of the industry <br />in order to identify and analyze various types of econo- <br />mic or policy incentives which would (a) make use of low <br />quality water acceptable; and (b) actively encourage such <br />use. <br /> <br />. To identify the comparative costs of redirecting low qual- <br />ity water to electrical plants and the incremental costs <br />to the plants of using such water as opposed to the mg/l <br />costs of removing salinity by other means. <br /> <br />. To conduct a cost/effectiveness analysis of specific fi- <br />nancial incentives as applied to a new electrical gener- <br />ating facility or to a retrofitted facility as compared <br />to alternative means of basin-wide salinity control. <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />.J <br />
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