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COLORADO RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT STUDY: FINAL REPORT y nism of the marketplace allows sincere purchasers to buy out established uses, ISSUES THAT INVOLVE THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF BASIN MANAGEMENT No NAME SPECIFIED SAN DIEGO COUNTY WA'TER AUTHORITY SAN DIEGO, CA Long-Range planning to help avoid shortages (100) years. Utilization of in-stream storage. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION MEETING PHOENIX, AZ Glen Canyon Dam issues are microcosm of rest of basin. Also, where is management and planning institutional structure to allow us to come to table and plan? Where is the data from which to base these large-scale management decisions? They don't exist and we're trying build them up piecemeal. Planning is main lacking area. We talk about problems, but no plan comes out. Plan must come from highest lev- els to have impact. ..JIM CURRAN NEVADA DIVISION OF WILDLIFE RENO, NV All activities on the river have some impact on the others. It is essential that coordinated management occurs. Similar to coordination between managers and users, all of us have to be able to coordinate our activities with all users and attempt to minimize conflicts before major problems occur. MAUREEN GEORGE LAKE HAVASU CITY LAKE HAVASU CITY, AZ How to address water supply for those communities along Colorado River who have no other source of supply - eg groundwater. Resolution of Indian markeling issues need 10 develop shortage plan that clearly spells out order of cutbacks in time of shortage. DAVID GUY CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU FEDERATION SACRAMENTO, CA The second most critical issue is the institutional framework of basin management. Making this framework amenable to real solutions is the obvious challenge to all stakeholders in tbe process and is absolutely essential 10 good water man- agement within the context of the Law of the River. .JADE HENDERSON WYOMING STAlE ENGINEER'S OFFICE: COKEVILLE, WY New uses versus traditional uses of water, in the context of market value on the Colorado River. Water has value, Traditional users continue to pay for the water delivered by projects developed for those uses. If society's values for water use are changing from the primary uses of agricul- ture and hydropower, then where is the checkbook of the new competing interests of aesthetics-recIeation-ecology to buy water from the paying users? Changing social val- ues and expanding population centers do NOT entitle non-paying users to seize or control the water; the mecha- STEVJ:: GLAZER , HIGH! COUNTRY CITIZENS' ALLIANCE CRESTED BUTTE, CO Pro-adtively influence the uses of our water resources instea,d of just being reactive. - AS'ye reach and exceed the limits of a finite resource, innovative and flexible management must be employed, repjacing rigid parochial approaches. - Continue to encourage intra-basin solutions. - COI1l.tinue to pursue reconciliation of conflicts between stale and federal mandales. . - Reqognize contingent valuation of our resources, mclud- ing] non-market values, when domg cost/beneht analYSIS and risk a.ssessment. - Ph~se out subsidies that distort priorities, , Insuiing equity and justice while implementing basin man- agement. - Ba.in of Origin protection when considering trans-basin diversions. - En~ure that all appropriate stakeholders are allowed to patticipate, - Re,tognizing changing public values. I Address a major flaw in the Colorado River Compacts, . - It was wrong \0 assume thai the river could be consumed toi extinction. - U~der this broad lopic, all environmental and other non- proprietary interests and concerns can be addressed. - Should the Lower Basin be helping with the Recovery Program in the Upper Basin? R~quiring remediation by those causing impairments i~stead of making downstream users clean-up the water bHore they can use it (Internalizing impacts). I RI4K GOLD BUiREAU OF RECLAMATION SALT LAKE CITY, UT Of major importance is how management of the basin works, ver~us how folks will think it works or would like it to work. Malty would suggest the holistic management of the Colorado Ri~er Basin. No mechanism exists, no broad authorities, no enlities equipped. Could this be the new ReclamatIon? I , P'lM HYDE At>.:1ERICAN RIVERS PHOENIX, AZ In~titulional framework and population growth/develop- m~nt are interconnected. The changmg demographIcs of th~ region create difficulties in water management which arf sometimes exacerbated by inflexibilities in th~ present inftitutional framework. In order to aVOId a mulmude of a~Cillary problems related to the river and water use, it is i perative to understand, and perhaps mfluence where p . ssible, palterns and trends in population growth and d~velopment, and to rework the institutional framework oj basin management to incorporate more flexibility, ~anagement in the futurewill need to be able to react q\1ickly to changed condItIOns, and use creatIve solutIons.