| Alternatives - Conservation >> Cheaper, Faster, Smarter, Sustainable |
| • The Glade Reservoir is enormously expensive, and it isn’t needed. We can provide all of the water proposed to be stored in Glade, and more, at a lower financial and environmental cost, through straightforward and proven conservation techniques, improved water use efficiency by municipal and industrial users, and with very modest improvements in agricultural water use efficiency. These include: |
| • Comprehensive public education and awareness programs about water conservation. |
| • Rebate/retrofit programs for low-water use landscaping, low-water-use toilets, shower heads, and water-wasting appliances. |
| • Water fallowing contracts between municipal, industrial, and agricultural users, with investments in agricultural water conservation and water use efficiency in return for use of agricultural water. |
| • Landscape irrigation monitoring and improvement programs to reduce water wasted in excessive irrigation. |
| • Repairing leaks in ditches and pipelines, lining ditches along all reaches, and using closed pipelines wherever possible. |
| • Tiered water rates that reward conservation with lower costs to customers who conserve. |
| • Use of gray-water systems and interfacing gray-water systems with water recycling systems wherever possible. |
| • For more information, please refer to a new report by Western Resource Advocates, Trout Unlimited and the Colorado Environmental Coalition. Facing Our Future: A Balanced Water Solution for Colorado presents a balanced approach for increasing the Front Range's water supply faster with less harm to the environment and much less controversy than water projects have faced in the past. |
