Farmers and urban water managers working together to seek solutions: if water is going to be transferred from ag to urban, how can we "get it right?"
| dc.contributor.author | Smith, MaryLou, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, publisher | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-11T14:33:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-06-11T14:33:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-05 | |
| dc.description | Presented at Urbanization of irrigated land and water transfers: a USCID water management conference on May 28-31, 2008 in Scottsdale, Arizona. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Following a major investigation into its water supply needs by the year 2030 which projects a significant shortage, Colorado's state legislature in 2006 enacted a Colorado Water for the 21st Century act. Stakeholders from each of the state's major water basins formed roundtables to first assess their respective basins' water challenges, and then to potentially agree on "interbasin" compacts to affect multi-basin solutions to the state's water supply dilemma. One of the issues of particular concern in the Arkansas Basin is the effect on the viability of agricultural communities when water is transferred from agriculture to cities - a practice which is expected to increase in the state as water supplies for urban needs fall short. A group of stakeholders from rural communities in the lower stretch of the Arkansas Basin proposed a set of guidelines to govern such transfers, upon which stakeholders representing basin urban areas proposed an alternate set of guidelines. In an attempt to resolve their differences, an "ag to urban water transfers" committee was established. This paper provides something of a sociological case study of the committee's progress in understanding their underlying beliefs and values, approaching such concerns as how to manage urban growth and revitalize rural economies, and attempting to develop prototypes for "how to get it right" when water is transferred, whether through "buy and dry" or such alternative practices as rotational fallowing. Their use of outside resources in "joint fact finding" is discussed. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | CD-ROMs | |
| dc.format.medium | proceedings (reports) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/208127 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Ag Water Conservation Policy | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Urbanization of irrigated land and water transfers, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 28-31, 2008 | |
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| dc.source | Contained in: Urbanization of irrigated land and water transfers, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 28-31, 2008, http://hdl.handle.net/10217/46620 | |
| dc.title | Farmers and urban water managers working together to seek solutions: if water is going to be transferred from ag to urban, how can we "get it right?" | |
| dc.title.alternative | Urbanization of irrigated land and water transfers | |
| dc.title.alternative | Working together | |
| dc.type | Text |
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