I would also look at cutting through environmental regulations that are prohibiting storage, particularly distributed storage in high altitude places within the state where there's less evaporation and there's more opportunity to store the water there. There are environmental regulations right now in western Colorado that are prohibiting or inhibiting for decades the development of reasonable reservoir expansion and storage projects. We need to look at revising things like the Endangered Species act, protections that are important, that are critical, but we need to make sure that they're not unnecessarily inhibiting the expansion of those reservoirs. (30:49–33:09)
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