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Challenges:
- Drought Response and Climate Change
- Over-Allocation of the Colorado River
- Increasing Population Growth
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Priorities:
- Emphasize a collaborative approach to water management, which includes conservation, reuse, replenishment, storage, and augmentation
- Engage stakeholders to hear diverse perspectives so that together we can determine optimal solutions
- Mobilize people to solve technical problems with innovative technology and adaptive challenges through dynamic discussion, trade-offs, and compromise
- Assist stakeholders to identify core values so that we can find common ground between rural and urban areas and so that agriculture, cities, developers, tribes, and environmental groups all have a voice in the conversation
- Support water pricing that balances affordability with fiscal responsibility
- Prioritize a diversified, reliable, affordable energy portfolio that includes renewable energy
- Encourage a water conservation ethic in all sectors of the community
- Incentivize efficiency and conservation
- Provide resources and infrastructure to rural and underserved communities
- Preserve the Colorado River and its ecosystems