Water Plan

Water Plan

Water Plan. I'm Greg Martin with Colorado Ag Today.

During the Ag Summit Gov. Hickenlooper singled out John Stulp for his work regarding the Water Plan in Colorado. Stulp, is the Director of the Interbasin Compact Committee as well as a farmer and rancher, discusses what the Water Plan is.

STULP: The Water Plan has kind of risen out of the efforts of a House bill passed 10 years ago in 2005and it was called 1177 and it set up what is called the Basic Roundtables and this is a group of people that are interested in water in each of our respective basins. We have eight basins plus the metro roundtable.

The groups access the needs, both now and future for water in the state. In 2013 the Governor asked them to put together a plan.

STULP: Based largely on what the roundtables have been doing as well as the IBCC the Governor said let's take what you've accumulated and talk about as roundtables, as IBCC, and pass this off to the Water Conservation Board. Since May of 2013, we've been working real hard on producing this draft and we deliver the first draft in December.

They will have a first version ready by this coming December and Stulp says there's nothing like a drought to get peoples attention.

STULP: In 2012 we were in pretty tough shape. We had a drought in '02 and 3 that really got the conversation started that we need to be doing more than what we had been. All the planning in the world doesn't make it rain more but we know living in an arid climate that we will have issues with drought.

And that's Colorado Ag Today. I'm Greg Martin, thanks for listening on the Ag Information Network of the West.

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