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<br />DRAFT <br /> <br />5. The economic, environmental, and other benefits of <br />leaving the water in the basin of origin for current <br />or future beneficial uses; <br /> <br />6. Alternative sources of water supply available to <br />the applicant; and <br /> <br />7. Alternative sources of water available to the basin <br />of origin for future beneficial uses.37 <br />, <br /> <br />A cost-benefit analysis from the state perspective is to be <br /> <br />undertaken, and the application is to be denied "if the benefits <br /> <br />to the state from granting the application do not outweigh the <br />benefits to the state from denying the apPli~ation."38 <br /> <br />A Texas law originally passed in 1913 now provides that <br /> <br />[n]o person may take or divert any of the <br /> <br />water of the ordinary flow, underflow, or <br /> <br />storm flow of any stream, watercourse, or <br /> <br />watershed in this state into any other <br /> <br />natural stream, watercourse, or watershed in <br /> <br />this state into any other natural stream, <br /> <br />watercourse, or watershed to the prejudice of <br /> <br />any person or property situated within the <br /> <br />water shed from which the water is proposed <br /> <br />37 Id. <br /> <br />38Id. Kansas passed a law in 1983 that follows a very <br />similar approach respecting all proposed diversions of at least <br />1,000 acre-feet of water per year for use more than IO miles from <br />the point of diversion. Kansas Laws 1983, Ch. 341, codified at <br />K.S.A. 882a-1501-1506 (1984). One additional factor of interest <br />is "conservation practice implementation plans for the use of <br />water currently available to and being used by the applicant and <br />for the use of the water proposed to be transferred." <br />K. S.A. 882a-1503 (d) (6) (1984). <br /> <br />16 <br />