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<br />12 <br /> <br />(b) Water problems are sUfficiently urgent that local-level water <br />managers will not and should not wait for State-level initia- <br />tives. <br />(c) Local-level water managers are searching for comprehensive <br />plans, ways of evaluatihgoptions, and methods for integrating <br />(coordinating) leadership in developing supplies and/or <br />improving management. <br />(d) All water exchanges agreed upon by all parties affected, in <br />principle, improve efficiency in the direction of optima; use. <br />(e) Quasi-public organizations offer great potential to take <br />leadership in the improvement of water right owner decisions <br />for their benefit. <br />(f) The opportuni ty is before the wa ter users and wa ter right <br />owners within the basin to move toward a cooperative process <br />for policy direction and decisionmaking. <br />1.6 Objectives' <br />In a recent study of Colorado water institutions, Foss (10) identi- <br />fied two general approaches to improve the effectiveness of water <br />management: <br />(a) improvements in water technology; and (b) changes in the insti- <br />tutions for managtng water. The objectives of this report involve both <br />of these approaches. New technological tools which are available to <br />improve the effectiveness .of water managemen't depend on the computer and <br />its capacity to store millions of numbers and perform computations at <br />high speed. Recent research and technological development has permitted <br />the development of two cOfllputer model s for use in the South Platte <br />Basin: SAMSON and CONS 1M. <br />