Colorado Water for the 21st Century
The Colorado Water for the 21st Century Act sets up a framework that provides a permanent forum for broad-based water discussions. It creates two new structures: 1) The Interbasin Compact Committee (IBCC), a state-wide committee that will address issues between basins; and 2) The Basin Roundtables.
Nine separate roundtables are established for each of the state's major river basins, and a "Metro Roundtable" for the Denver metropolitan area.
These Basin Roundtables facilitate discussions on water issues and encourage locally driven collaborative solutions. The broad-based, collaborative nature of this process is reflected in the roundtable membership.
To help the Basin Roundtables accomplish their major responsibility of developing a basin-wide needs assessment, they have relied on groundwork completed during the Statewide Water Supply Initiative (SWSI). To further develop their needs assessments and to support water activities in each of the basins, SB06-179, HB06-1385 and HB06-1400 were passed by the legislature during 2006.