2007 Water Conservation Fact Sheet

• Year: 2007
• Title: Water Conservation Planning Fact Sheet
• CWCB Section: Water Conservation & Drought Planning
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Water Conservation Planning Fact Sheet
• Publications - Doc Type: Fact Sheets

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD

Departtnent of Natural Resources
Bill Ritter, Jr., Governor
Harris D. Sherman, DNR Executive Director
Dan McAuliffe, CWCB Acting Director June 2007

WATER CONSERVATION PLANNING FACT SHEET

What is Conservation?
Water Conservation means water use efficiency &
involves the practices, techniques, technologies that
improve the efficiency of water use. The objective of
water conservation is a long-term increase in the
productive use of water supply in order to satisfy
water supply needs without compromising desired
water serv1ces.

What Eletnents Need To Be
Included in a Water Conservation
Plan?

What Are the Benefits of Water

Conservation?
· Water Conservation enables a local water
provider to meet its supply needs adequately
with reliable water and save water
management costs at the same time.
· Helps to avoid or reduce the need to develop
or acquire new water supplies.
· Postpone, downsize or avoid altogether the
need for new water treatment or waste water
treatment infrastructure.
· Reduce operating costs related to water &
wastewater treatment and source water
production.
· Improve supply reliability/margin and
mitigate impacts of future droughts.
· Comply with regulations.
· Improve public credibility by demonstrating
stewardship of natural and financial resources.
· Promote sustainable use of finite water
supplies.

. Water-efficient fixtures and appliances,
including toilets, urinals, showerheads, and
faucets
· Low water use landscapes, drought-resistant
vegetation and efficient irrigation
· Water-efficient industrial and commercial
water-us1ng processes
· Water reuse systems
· Distribution system leak identification and
repa1t
· Dissemination of information regarding water
use efficiency measures, including by public
education, customer water use audits, and
water-saving demonstrations
· Water rate structures and billing systems
designed to encourage water use efficiency in
a fiscally responsible manner
· Regulatory measures designed to encourage
water conservation
· Incentives to implement water conservation
techniques, including rebates to customers to
encourage the installation of water
conservation measures
· A section stating the role of water
conservation plans in an entity's water supply
planning
· Steps to develop, implement, monitor, review
& revise the water conservation plan
· Estimate of the amount of water that will be
saved through conservation when the plan is
implemented.

For more information contact Veva McCaig at the CWCB at [phone].
1313 Sherman Street, Room 721, Denver, CO 80203
Phone: [phone]. Fax: [phone]
Website : www.cwcb.state.co.us