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2 or 1 99 ABOUT WESTERN NETWORK Western Network is an environmental conflict manage- ment and research organization dedicated to improving decision-making processes through use of information and dispute resolution systems designed by the people they are intended to serve. Western Network ,is a resource for negotiation and authoritative information in the natural resources field, offer- ing services in mediation, regulatory negotiation, public participa- tion, research as well as training in the areas of negotiation skills, conflict resolution and cross-cultural communication, OTHER PUBUCATIONS: Water in the West ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WHAT INDIAN WATER MEANS W THE WEST is the first volume of WIler in the West, a series of source books examining conw f1ict stemming from the shift of water to new uses. The source book presents a survey of conflict between Indians and non-Indians about water rights in 13 western states. This publication has been made possible by grants from the Ford Foundation, the General Service Foundation, the Tides founda- tion, Ihe New World Foundation and the Edward Elliott Foun- dation, WATER FOR THE ENERGY MARKET volume two, summarizes 55 disputes in the states of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, over the impacts of coal development on water resources. We would also like to thank the eighty or more people of the Rio Grande basin whom we interviewed and consulted during preparation of this handbook. They are among the water users and managers of the region whose day to day problems and concerns we have tried to reflect in this publication. WESTERN WATER FLOWS W THE CITIES AUTHORSHIP volume three, is a source book intended to provide documentation about the problems facing decision- makers as they plan to meet the water supply needs of urban regions in the Southwest. It provides a sample of the issues and controversies facing twenty cities and the surrounding urbanized regions in parts of seven states: Ari- zona, Southern California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Western Texas and Utah, Principal authors of this publication are: Steven J. Shupe of Shupe & Associates, a water resources consulting firm, andJohn A. Folk- Williams, President of Western Network, who also served as edi- tor. Additional research and writing were performed by Lucy Hil- gendorf, of the Western Network staff, and James Cannon, ,an independent consultant.