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<br />Colorado State Water Plan <br /> <br />PLAN OF STUDY <br /> <br />The State of Colorado contains the headwaters for four major river systems: <br /> <br />Colorado, Rio Grande, Arkansas, and Missouri, as shown on the General Map <br /> <br />No. <br /> <br />, preceding page <br /> <br />The Colorado River is wholly west of the Continental Divide. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />The Arkansas River drains the <br />The Missouri River <br /> <br />The Rio Grande River flows south into New Mexico. <br /> <br />southeast corner of the state. <br />Basin contains the North and South Platte and Republican <br /> <br />Rivers draining the northeast corner of the state. <br /> <br />Colorado has extensive land, mineral, forest, and fish and game resources <br /> <br />.which could be further utilized to provide desirable economic opportunities <br /> <br />for the State's expanding population and to provide products required by the <br /> <br />expanding national economy. In addition to the foregoing basic resources, <br /> <br />the labor, climatic, physiographic, historical, and cultural features of <br /> <br />Colorado are supplementary resources exceptionally conducive to the location <br /> <br />of footloose industries, desirable retirement opportunities, tourism, and <br /> <br />year-round recreation. To provide the water requirements necessary for the <br /> <br />utilization and deveiopment of Colorado's basic and supplementary resources, <br /> <br />i,' <br /> <br />the water resources of the State must be carefully and fully utilized, and <br /> <br />long-range plans for the State's participation in interregional water <br /> <br />transfers must be developed. <br /> <br />~ <br />,.., '}: <br />~\I <br />