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Potential Collaborations

Potential Customer - Options

(Least Collaborative to Most Collaborative)

• Agree on an effective planning document together.
• Agree to a limited working relationship within the group to provide one another assistance in times of emergency.
• Agree to share inventory or equipment with one another.
• Agree to share an operator with another system or systems.
• Agree to some type of joint management of the system: could include one management entity over several systems, bookkeeping or billing together.
• Agree to interconnect system for emergency purposes only.
• Agree to share water rights or water resources without actually completely tying systems together.
• Agree to tie systems together, but have separate operations.
• Agree to tie systems together, dissolve current systems and form a new entity.
  

Potential Customer - Focus

What are the sources of water that each community relies on for drinking water and what is the present condition of these water sources?

How much water have people been using in a given area and what is the projected future population and water use in the given area?

What are the regulations the community water systems operate under and how do other regulations such as land use affect their operation?

What data needs to be collected in order to make an informed decision on water planning?

Potential Customers - Goals

We are inviting several systems in your area to work together to help each other in times of drought and water shortages. Some of the goals of the program are:

• To promote community-wide drought planning and water conservation actions that will protect and extend community water supplies against drought-related problems.

• To create a template for forty-year water plans that includes a water conservation component that will reflect the needs and can be adopted by all communities participating.

• To create a template for forty-year water plans that includes a water conservation component that will reflect the needs and can be adopted by all communities participating.

• To educate local leaders and the public about water conservation and how to best protect the water resources that provides drinking water to their community.