Project Description Country: USA Location: Fort Collins Total Budget: $4,000 Area of Focus: Water, sanitation and hygiene Activity Type: Water: Supply/Access Summary: Rotary Education program on the Colorado River and the future of water access The Colorado River compact will expire in 2026. This compact affects the citizens of 7 western states (AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, UT, WY). We have Rotary clubs in all of the affected areas. The purpose of this grant is to develop a Rotary program that will educate Rotarians on the importance of this compact and why they as business and community leaders should become involved. There are over 24,000 Rotarians in the 7 State compact area. The video will introduce the history, importance and how to become involved. The Center of the American West (Univ of CO) will provide a cadre of experts for Q&A after the video. We will ask Rotarians to get involved by: (1) contacting their state water commissioner, (2) asking for their plan on how to provide water to their community, (3) encouraging their local counties involvement by developing a Water Adequacy plan for their community. The video will be seen by over 10,000 Rotarians. The involvement of these Rotarians through the follow-up action will involve over a 1,000 Rotarians that will invest on average 5 to 10 hours. This will result in over 5,000 to 10,000 Rotarian hours of volunteer service to their community in the 7 state area. Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed) The budget has been revised to show this as an 18 month project. The first 6 months is the development of the video and expert resource panel to answer questions when the video is distributed. The next 12 months is the implementation of the project. This will involve distribution of the video and having water experts available for Q&A after the video is shown by video conference. So, the video will be offered to the 1,300 Rotary clubs in the 7 state area. The 25 minute video will be followed by a video conference call provided by the Rotarian group with a water expert to answer any questions by the club. This interaction will provide real time answers to the questions by the club members. The end result will be a much higher level of understanding by the Rotarians of the issues associated with the Colorado River compact and will also allow for local clubs to become involved in this ongoing process. Project Contact Person District: 5440 Rotary Club of: Fort Collins Primary Contact: David Stewart Email: dave.stewart@stewartenv.com Project Status Completed This project is "Completed". This means the project has been implemented and the report was accepted by the district leadership. The project will stay listed on this website as a testimony of the achievements of the project partners. Project listed for the 2022-23 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing Existing Contributions Towards This Project Date Cash DDF Total Fort Collins (5440) 31-May-22 $1,320 $2,680 $4,000 Total $1,320 $2,680 $4,000

Project Supporting Documents Alphabetical with icons By date with icons Alphabetical list format By date list format [8-Jan-25] Check for Project [8-Jan-25] Final Report [8-Jul-22] Program Overview [14-Jun-22] Rotary - Colo River Budget - v2 2022

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History Log Entries 6-Jun-22 by Randall Looper Dave, You need to upload a detailed budget of income and expenses to the documents area of the project. 26-Jun-22 by David Stewart System Entry: Project sent for club signatures. 26-Jun-22 by David Stewart System Entry: Project signed by David Stewart. 26-Jun-22 by Marty Bachman System Entry: Project signed by Marty Bachman. 8-Jul-22 by Randall Looper System Entry: Project approved by the District Approval Committee. 1-Sep-22 by Randall Looper David, I have mailed the check for grant 4357 on 9/1/22. Please reply to this history log when your club treasurer receives the check. Randy 1-Sep-22 by Randall Looper System Entry: Check for DDF payment issued by Foundation Treasurer. 9-Jan-23 by Randall Looper David Please provide a quarterly history log update as to the status of this project. 12-Apr-23 by Randall Looper David, Please provide a quarterly history log update as to the status of this project. Randy 12-Jul-23 by Randall Looper David, Please provide a quarterly history log update as to the status of this project. Randy 26-Jul-23 by David Stewart This project has completed the video and editing is being performed now. We are working with CU Boulder on the distribution of the video and the coordination of the experts now for starting the sessions in Sept 2023. Significant progress has been made. A copy of the video trailer is uploaded to the site. 26-Jul-23 by David Stewart Here is a link to the video trailer - the site would not allow for the upload to the site. Here is the new link with the title at the end: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ohap3zIZp2yEPU172zxJ_c789xZvvrvZ/view?usp=sharing 14-Oct-23 by Randall Looper David, Please supply a quarterly update with the project. 15-Jan-24 by Randall Looper David Please provide a quarterly history log update as to the status of this project. 23-Jan-24 by David Stewart The video of this project is complete. We are now in the process of distributing the video to the Rotary Clubs in the 7 Colo River basin states. We anticipate that this will take approximately 5 months to complete. We are also planning on a 2.5 day conference in Sept 2024 at the CSU SPUR campus to provide information on how to use the 4 Way Test as a guide to having a conversation on the conflicts of the Colorado River. This will use the 4 Way Test and invite water leaders from the 7 states. We are working with CSU Water Center and the Univ of Colo - Boulder. Dave Stewart 15-May-24 by David Stewart We have now obtained various experts in the 7 basin states. To date, we have shown the video to 300 Rotarians. We have a goal of 3,000 Rotarians and should be able to reach that by the end of the summer. We have also arranged for a conference with the University of Colorado and the Colorado Water Center at CSU in September 2024. This conference will be open (by streaming) to any Rotarians. It is a 2.5 day conference to show how to have the conversation on solving the Colorado River issues using the 4 Way Test. 19-Oct-24 by Randall Looper Dave This project is now over 2 years old. If this project is complete please complete the final report and upload it and the receipts to the documents area of the grant. If it is not complete please do a history log as to how and when it is going to be complete. Randy 8-Jan-25 by David Stewart Video link: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vh5fyh8wqn6qgpu54z81r/CrisisOnTheColorado.mp4?rlkey=5jg6e1dnmc5im2zhpfotkkb1s&st=8b4wgnrg&dl=0 8-Jan-25 by Randall Looper Dave, Thanks for the final report. Before I can close this out you need to upload copies of the receipts for the project or a copy of a club check that equals the amount spent on the project. Randy 8-Jan-25 by Randall Looper Dave, Thanks for the final report. Before I can close this out you need to upload copies of the receipts for the project or a copy of a club check that equals the amount spent on the project. Randy 8-Jan-25 by David Stewart System Entry: Project has been implemented and final report uploaded. 8-Jan-25 by Randall Looper System Entry: Final report approved by the District Approval Committee.