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The recent drought and Colorado's rapid population growth have heightened interest in Colorado's water supply. The purpose of this pamphlet is to outline the major features of Colorado's water policy landscape including its water law, state water agencies, state financing mechanisms for water supply projects, and recent legislative activities to address Colorado's water supply challenges.

This memorandum summarizes major state and federal water quality control policies pertaining to nutrients; describes the major provisions of the new Section 17 of Regulation 31 that establishes interim numeric values for phosphorus, nitrogen and chlorophyll; describes the new Regulation 85 that establishes numerical effluent limitations for domestic wastewater treatment plants and other wastewater dischargers; summarizes the rule review process of...