WA-10-2: Reuse of Trans-mountain Waters and Other Reusable Water Supplies

WHEREAS Club 20 has several resolutions concerning trans-mountain diversion of Western Slope waters and the economic, aesthetic and environmental impacts associated with such diversions; and

WHEREAS in contrast to most tributary water diversions, waters that are imported to a basin or pumped from non-tributary aquifers are generally fully-reusable to extinction; and 

WHEREAS several Front Range trans-mountain diverters and Denver Basin Aquifer pumpers are currently evaluating reuse of existing legally-reusable water supplies; and

WHEREAS several Front Range municipalities are investing in innovative and advanced reuse treatment programs to more fully and efficiently use existing water supplies, and

WHEREAS the US Bureau of Reclamation has a grant program, “Title XVI,” to assist water entities financially with water reuse infrastructure,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Club 20 endorses the efforts by Front Range water entities to more efficiently and completely use the water supplies currently diverted to them, including recent investments and plans to more fully reuse existing trans-mountain water diversions.

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Adopted 4/9/2010

Renewed 3/27/2015

Amended 9/5/2025