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Show conservation that Duer and other agency literature express was that the major source of water for the future growth of Salt Lake City is the water saved by water conservation. Other variables that encourage SLCDPU's economic approach include the relative freedom that Duer and SLCDPU have to develop water conservation programs based on this attitude. Additionally, the political and public bodies surrounding the agency have been supportive of the economic approaches taken by SLCDPU. To summarize JVWCD's internal and external influences on its water conservation policy includes the wholesale distribution of water, as well as JVWCD's legislated purpose to distribute water to developing areas of the Salt Lake Valley. Additionally, the politics of selling water wholesale, as well as the region that JVWCD sells to are external influences that factor into the development of water conservation policy. The interplay of these components results in a much different outcome of policy than that of SLCDPU. JVWCD relies on the dissemination of information about the importance of saving water ( www. jvwcd. org/ About/ about. html, 11/ 1/ 03). As a result other approaches, such as regulatory and economic, are not considered. Additionally, most of the water conservation budget goes toward educational aspects of the program. This analysis shows that a significant internal variable is the wholesale marketing of water. JVWCD contracts to other agencies to sell water at a wholesale rate. These other agencies, in turn, distribute it to their residents or other customers. The result is that JVWCD, as a wholesaler, would find it difficult to raise the price of water for use in the way that SLCDPU has, because |