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Issues identified in the Powder/Tongue River Basin
Category Issues Activities/Projects
Water Quantity (cont.) - Reinjection to aquifers
- Planning for water quantity decreases following peak
development (resting the resource)
- Reservoir projects
- Conveyance losses
- Contract reservoir rights, how they fit, what is
their future, how dependable
- Fish need water too
- Precipitation Drought of Record (early 2000)
- Drip irrigation
- Conservation pools and flows
- Promoting opportunity for innovation, non-invasive
water management
- Preservation of watersheds
Conservation - Groundwater
- Surface water
- CBM water management
- Improved management practices
- Re-use
- Wild and scenic designations
- Improved irrigation practices
- Non-subsidized use (pay for what you use)
- Permaculture practices
- Protecting scenic watersheds, private cooperative
projects as opposed to government
- Managing (conserving) consumptive use
- Rehabilitation projects (irrigation)
- Preservation of watersheds
Funding - Private land rights
- Funding for water development opportunities
- Private funding
- Industry contribution
- Rehab of existing conveyance systems (old ditches)
- WWDC
- Partnerships with Feds
- Watershed groups (defined users)
- More funding for watershed protection (State)