In any water adjudication under the provisions of article 9 of chapter 148, C.R.S. 1963, as amended, pending on August 12, 1971, in which any applicant files any statement of claim asking that his date of priority antedate any earlier decrees or adjudications, in order not to be forever barred the owners of affected rights must object and protest within the times and in the manner provided by the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969; and the judge shall direct the clerk to publish once in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the water division as set forth in said Act of 1969, within which the water district is incorporated, to provide, and which shall be, notice to all water users within the division. The language of such notice shall be substantially as follows:

“There has been filed in this proceeding a claim or claims which may affect in priority any water right claimed or heretofore adjudicated within this division and owners of affected rights must appear to object and protest as provided in the Water Right Determination and Administration Act of 1969, or be forever barred.”