Executive Summary

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Opportunities for Potential Future Actions Identified by Workgroups The Workgroups did not prioritize their opportunities; therefore, the ordering of these lists does not imply a prioritization.

M&I Water Conservation and Reuse Workgroup

x Increase outdoor water use efficiency through technology improvements and behavior change, and increase the adoption of low-water-use landscapes.

x Increase the end-user understanding of individual, community, and regional water use.

x Increase the integration of water/energy-efficiency programs and resource planning.

x Expand local and state goal-setting and tracking to assist providers in structuring programs.

x Increase funding for water use efficiency and reuse.

x Increase integration of water and land use planning.

x Develop and expand resources to assist water providers in water conservation efforts.

x Implement measures to reduce system water loss with specific metrics and benchmarking.

x Increase commercial, institutional, and industrial water use efficiency and reuse through targeted outreach and partnerships.

x Expand adoption of conservation-oriented rates and incentives.

x Expand adoption of regulations and ordinances to increase water use efficiency and reuse.

Agricultural Water Conservation, Productivity, and Transfers Workgroup

x Increase and/or maintain productivity through more efficient on-farm activities.

x Reduce losses and improve operational efficiency through improved conveyance infrastructure.

x Pursue flexibility associated with strategic consumptive use reductions (for example, deficit irrigation, crop selection, or fallowing).

x Enhance and use mechanisms to facilitate flexible water management (for example, banking, transfers, or exchanges).

x Encourage efficient water management through conservation planning and reporting, data management, and tools development.

x Foster efficient agricultural water use through sustainable funding and incentive programs.

x Increase or maintain productivity and improvewater management through soil health.

Environmental and Recreational Flows Workgroup

x Develop sources of sustainable funding for environmental and recreational flow projects.

x Use structured and cooperative market-based mechanisms to provide benefits to multiple sectors, including ecological and recreational resources.

x Develop projects that incorporate watershed management.

x Develop partnerships that achieve the protection or improvement of ecological and recreational resources through payment for protection of environmental attributes.

x Investigate opportunities to use voluntary water management optimization for the protection or restoration of environmental and recreational flows.

x Facilitate enhanced coordination among existing programs.

x Support additional capacity-building for existing and new stakeholder coalitions.

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Acknowledgement Funding provided by the Bureau of Reclamation and the seven Colorado River Basin States for Phase 1 of the Moving Forward effort and the generous contributions of time and expertise by stakeholders made the development of this Phase 1 Report possible. Participating Members: Federal Agencies x Bureau of Reclamation x National Park Service x U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service x U.S. Forest Service x U.S. Geological Survey x Western Area Power Administration

State Agencies/Organizations x Arizona Department of Water Resources x Arizona Public Service x California Department of Water Resources x Colorado River Board of California x Colorado River Commission of Nevada x Colorado Water Conservation Board x New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission x New Mexico Office of the State Engineer x Upper Colorado River Commission x Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems x Utah Department of Natural Resources x Utah Division of Water Resources x Wyoming State Engineer's Office

Municipal Agencies/Organizations x City of Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities x City of Flagstaff x City of Santa Fe x Colorado Springs Utilities x Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

Water/Energy Providers x Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water

Utility Authority x Central Arizona Project x Coachella Valley Water District x Colorado River Water Conservation District x Denver Water x Eastern Municipal Water District x Green River - Rock Springs - Sweetwater

County Joint Powers Water Board x Imperial Irrigation District x Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District

x Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation & Drainage District

x Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District x Palo Verde Irrigation District x Public Service Company of New Mexico x Salt River Project x San Diego County Water Authority x San Juan Water Commission x Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy

District x Southern Nevada Water Authority x The Metropolitan Water District of Southern

California x Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation & Drainage District

Federally-Recognized Tribes x Colorado River Indian Tribes x Ten Tribes Partnership

Non-governmental Organizations x American Rivers x American Whitewater x Arizona Municipal Water Users Association x Colorado River Energy Distributors Association x Colorado Water Users x Environmental Defense Fund x Family Farm Alliance x Front Range Water Council x National Parks Conservation Association x National Young Farmers Coalition x Rio Grande Restoration x The Nature Conservancy x Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership x Trout Unlimited x Yuma County Agricultural Water Coalition

Universities x Colorado State University

Others x CH2M HILL x Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP x Zebre Law Offices

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Coordination Team

Chairs: x Carly Jerla, Bureau of Reclamation

x Kay Brothers, consultant to the Southern Nevada Water Authority

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of Water Resources Water District of Southern California x Kathleen Ferris, Arizona Municipal x Jack Safely, The Metropolitan Water

Water Users Association (Workgroup District of Southern California Co-Chair1) (Workgroup Co-Chair1)

x Alan Butler, Bureau of Reclamation x Rob Billerbeck, National Park Service (Workgroup Co-Chair2) x Kevin Flanigan, New Mexico

x Kenneth Nowak, Bureau of Interstate Stream Commission Reclamation (Workgroup Co-Chair3) x Ed Smith, Palo Verde Irrigation

x Chuck Cullom, Central Arizona Project District x Tanya Trujillo, Colorado River Board of x Bruce Hallin, Salt River Project

California x Colby Pellegrino, Southern Nevada x Jayne Harkins, Colorado River Water Authority

Commission of Nevada x Peter Culp, Squire, Sanders & x Dave Kanzer, Colorado River Water Dempsey LLP

Conservation District x Darryl Vigil, Ten Tribes Partnership - x Reagan Waskom, Colorado State Jicarilla Apache Nation

University (Workgroup Co-Chair3) x Chuck Lawler, Ten Tribes Partnership - x Ted Kowalski, Colorado Water Southern Ute Indian Tribe

Conservation Board (Workgroup Co- x Taylor Hawes, The Nature Chair2) Conservancy (Workgroup Co-Chair2)

x Erin Wilson, Colorado Water Users x Don Ostler, Upper Colorado River x Marc Waage, Denver Water Commission

(Workgroup Co-Chair1) x David Lytle, U.S. Geological Survey x Jennifer Pitt, Environmental Defense x Robert King, Utah Division of Water

Fund Resources x Bennett Raley, Front Range Water x Sam Loftin, Western Area Power

Council Administration x Tina Shields, Imperial Irrigation District x Steve Wolff, Wyoming State

(Workgroup Co-Chair3) Engineer's Office

Co-Chair of the Municipal and Industrial Water Conservation and Reuse Workgroup Co-Chair of the Environmental and Recreational Flows Workgroup Co-Chair of the Agricultural Water Conservation, Productivity, and Transfers Workgroup

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This chapter is a product of the Municipal and Industrial Water Conservation and Reuse Workgroup

Workgroup Co-Chairs: • Kathleen Ferris, Arizona Municipal Water Users Association • Jack Safely, The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California • Marc Waage, Denver Water

Workgroup Members:

• John Stomp, Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority

• Jenny Hoffner, American Rivers • Carol Ward-Morris, Arizona

Municipal Water Users Association (alternate Co-Chair)

• Robert Lotts, Arizona Public Service • Scott Miller, Arizona Public Service

• Ken Nowak, Bureau of Reclamation • Armin Munévar, CH2M HILL

(contractor team)

• Paula Silva, CH2M HILL (contractor team)

• Brian Skeens, CH2M HILL (contractor team)

• Clint Bassett, City of Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities

• Brad Hill, City of Flagstaff • Erin Young, City of Flagstaff Rick

Carpenter, City of Santa Fe

• Angela Rashid, Colorado River Board of California

• John Currier, Colorado River Water Conservation District

• Scott Winter, Colorado Springs Utilities

• Kevin Reidy, Colorado Water Conservation Board

• Elizabeth Lovsted, Eastern Municipal Water District

• Rich Atwater, Environmental Defense Fund

• Ben Bracken, Green River-Rock Springs-Sweetwater County Joint Powers Water Board

• Michael Cohen, Independent Consultant Bart Forsyth, Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District

• Penny Falcon, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

• John Longworth, New Mexico Office of the State Engineer

• Mike Greene, Public Service Company of New Mexico

• Dan Denham, San Diego County Water Authority

• Thomas Maher, Southern Nevada Water Authority

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This chapter is a product of the Agricultural Water Conservation, Productivity, and Transfers Workgroup.

Workgroup Co-Chairs: • Kenneth Nowak, Bureau of Reclamation • Tina Shields, Imperial Irrigation District • Reagan Waskom, Colorado State University

Workgroup Members: • Jeanine Jones, California Department of

Water Resources • Chuck Cullom, Central Arizona Project • Mohammed Mahmoud, Central Arizona

Project • Greg Gates, CH2M HILL

(contractor team) • Steve Shultz, CH2M HILL

(contractor team) • Dan Charlton, Coachella Valley Water

District • Robert Cheng, Coachella Valley Water

District • Angela Rashid, Colorado River Board of

California • Tanya Trujillo, Colorado River Board of

California • Warren Turkett, Colorado River

Commission of Nevada • Doug Bonamici, Colorado River Indian

Tribes • Ed Yava, Colorado River Indian Tribes • Grant Buma, Colorado River Indian Tribes • Dave Kanzer, Colorado River Water

Conservation District • Erin Wilson, Colorado Water Users

Representative • Aaron Citron, Environmental Defense Fund • Dan Keppen, Family Farm Alliance • Pat O’Toole, Family Farm Alliance • Anisa Divine, Imperial Irrigation District • Autumn Plourd, Imperial Irrigation District

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Kate Cannon, National Park Service

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Stream Commission Sharook Madon, CH2M HILL (contractor team) • Steve Harris, Rio Grande Restoration

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Kyle Hamilton, CH2M HILL Seth Shanahan, Southern Nevada (contractor team) Water Authority

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Kirstin Skadberg, CH2M HILL Peter Culp, Squire, Sanders & (contractor team)

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John Sanderson, The Nature Conservancy Lindia Liu, Colorado River Meg White, The Nature Conservancy Board of California

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Polly Hays, U.S. Forest Service Leon Basdekas, Colorado Springs Utilities

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Jennifer Pitt, Environmental Defense Fund

Kerry Sundeen, Front Range

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Meena Westford, The Metropolitan Water

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This chapter is a product of the Environmental and Recreational Flows Workgroup.

Workgroup Co-Chairs: • Alan Butler, Bureau of Reclamation • Taylor Hawes, The Nature Conservancy • Ted Kowalski, Colorado Water Conservation Board