The CWCB is accepting public comments on the draft Colorado Water Plan until May 1st. We want our Western Slope voices to be heard!
Governor Hickenlooper and the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) are accepting comments on the draft Colorado Water Plan. This plan represents the strategies, policies, and actions needed to address Colorado’s projected future water needs while protecting existing water uses. Click here to read our scoping comments on the first draft.
- For more information on the water plan visit http://coloradowaterplan.com/.
- For more ways to get involved visit http://waterforcolorado.org/
To submit comments, please complete the comment form at http://coloradowaterplan.com/ (click Get Involved/ General Comment Form) or you can directly email the Governor (John.Hickenlooper@state.co.us) and CWCB ([email protected]).
We need a strong Plan that protects western slope water. A strong plan must include the following elements:
1. More funding for healthy rivers
2. State-wide water conservation goal of 10% by 2020 and 20% by 2030
3. No new large trans-mountain diversions – especially from the Gunnison Basin
4. Modernized agriculture and water-sharing practices
5. Commitment from the state to focus on water recycling
6. Funding for environmental needs and assessment studies
7. Strong rules that protect our water supplies from irresponsible oil and gas development
8. Protection for more instream flows
Curious about specific plans for the Gunnison Basin? Visit http://coloradowaterplan.com/ (click Community/ Gunnison River Basin and select the Basin Implementation Plan [BIP] Documents). Click here to download the Conservation Center’s comments on the Gunnison Basin BIP.
The California drought will stop anymore west slope diversions to the Eastern slope; Lower basin calls will jeopardize agriculture as we know it on the western slope.
Now Canada wants the Keystone pipeline to ship their dirty Tar sands oil to Houston where British Petroleum refines it and sells it on the world market. Presently we the US buys that 98.5% of that oil but after the pipeline it will sell at the world market price at the port of Galveston. Maybe that is free trade but it to the US disadvantage. So maybe a trade for Canadian water makes better sense? The high plains of the west is water short and northwest Canada is a wash and it should be a reasonable trade you scratch my back and we scratch yours.
Speaking of pipelines. We the US needs pipelines to get our gas to market; our own East coast and Europe. Speaking to a tightly couple power grid as an electrical grid is nuts. It will take the whole country down all at once. If that grid were an energy grid made primarily of natural gas pipe lines and the end user generates there power in downtown New York without all those ugly and easy sabotaged electrical power grids. The waste heat from generation can be used to heat and cool the large population centers.
Remember we need water!
We need a strong Plan that protects western slope water. A strong plan must include the following elements:
1. More funding for healthy rivers
2. State-wide water conservation goal of 10% by 2020 and 20% by 2030
3. No new large trans-mountain diversions – especially from the Gunnison Basin
4. Modernized agriculture and water-sharing practices
5. Commitment from the state to focus on water recycling
6. Funding for environmental needs and assessment studies
7. Strong rules that protect our water supplies from irresponsible oil and gas development
8. Protection for more instream flows
Curious about specific plans for the Gunnison Basin? Visit http://coloradowaterplan.com/ (click Community/ Gunnison River Basin and select the Basin Implementation Plan [BIP] Documents). Click here to download the Conservation Center’s comments on the Gunnison Basin BIP.