Statewide Water Supply Initiative (SWSI) 2010 Final Draft

The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) is pleased to announce the release of the final draft of the Statewide Water Supply Initiative (SWSI) 2010. SWSI 2010 provides a comprehensive picture of Colorado’s water needs, now and in the future.

It incorporates and summarizes previously published work by CWCB and the Basin Roundtables and includes:
•An executive summary
•An analysis of nonconsumptive needs and nonconsumptive projects and methods
•An analysis of consumptive needs, including municipal, industrial, and agricultural water needs
•An analysis of water availability in each river basin
•An analysis of municipal and industrial identified projects and processes and a municipal and industrial gap analysis, and
•Strategies to fill the gap.

Each of these sections is based on previous work which received significant input from the basin roundtables and the public, and is being considered by the board for adoption January 26, 2011 at the CWCB Board meeting.
Click on the link below to download SWSI 2010 as a whole or section by section.

http://cwcb.state.co.us/water-management/water-supply-planning/Pages/SWSI2010.aspx

Very informative post and link, PF, thanks.

BTW, can you post this info on the other Affiliate sited, please?

thanks photo-fish. a lot to review. found sections 4 and 6 quite helpful in answering a number of questions. it helped to see the compact agreements too.

6.1 Water Availability Overview
Justice Gregory J. Hobbs of the Colorado Supreme Court has stated "The 21st Century is the era of limits made applicable to water decisionmaking. Due to natural western water scarcity, we are no longer developing a resource. Instead, we are learning how to share a developed resource." These words of wisdom should serve as guidance for all parties interested in Colorado water. The amount of water available for use within the state is finite.


SWSI 1 found there are no reliable additional water supplies that can be developed in the Arkansas and Rio Grande Basins, except in very wet years. The North Platte Basin has the ability to increase both irrigated acres and some additional consumptive uses, consistent with the North Platte Decrees. The South Platte Basin has water that is legally and physically available for development in wet years,
although unappropriated water is extremely limited.