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<br />008353 <br /> <br />Rural Development Board Given <br />30 Days To Develop Water Plan <br /> <br />DENVER - Colorado Rural Devel- <br />opment Commission members have 30 <br />t" days to get a recommendation for a <br />state water plan developed, they were <br />told at a meeting in the Capitol <br />Tuesday afternoon. <br /> <br />As a preliminary to setting up the <br />recommendation, they will meet with <br />Larry Sparks, director of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board, and Clar- <br />ence Kuiper, slate water engineer, <br />early next week. The two men will be <br />asked to outline water prohlems and <br />policies of the state. <br /> <br />Ken Johnson, publisher of The <br />Daily Sentinel, who presided as chair- <br />man, noted that the ,rural devel- <br />opment group must come up with <br />some recommendation of what a state <br /> <br />water policy should be. He also named <br />Lowell Watts as coordinator to put to- <br />gether a position paper detailing rec- <br />ommendations. <br />Among suggestions from commission <br />members on the study were not only <br />concern for diversion of water from <br />one basin to another in the state, but <br />also Crom one portion of a basin to an. <br />other in the same basin. <br />Gov. John Love, in his call to the <br />1972 legislature, ,recommended crea. <br />tion of a water study council, along <br />with definitions of its duties. power <br />and authority. <br />Johnson, noting that the study was <br />on the call, told the 'commission that <br />it must make a decision whether to <br />make some suggestions or whether to <br />continue to dodge the issue. <br /> <br />from the desk ~, <br />WILLIAM H. NELSON <br /> <br />Th9 cans of WOMnS we are <br />opening these days! <br /> <br />., <br /> <br />If action is to be taken' wlttun the <br />current legislative session, the cQmO{ <br />mission must have its ideas ready for, <br />presentation, Johnson said. <br />Art Moss, executive secretary of, <br />Club 20. presenting a paper on wat~r. <br />problems of the state. noted that the <br />study can help to avoid controversy <br />within the state. <br /> <br />'.' If the study should indicate we <br />should implement diversion, we'd be <br />the last to disagree." he said. ' <br /> <br />The Colorado Rural Development' <br />Commission was authorized in' the <br />1971 legiSlative session. It was set up <br />to give rural-oriented areas of the <br />state an opportunity to offer sugges- <br />tions for the development and ex-' <br /> <br />panti q '1 tf ' <br /> <br />i <br />, <br />--' <br /> <br />, <br />