WSP08519

• File Number: 8281.300
• Description: Colorado River Studies and Investigations - Colorado River Consumptive Uses and Losses Report
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/1/1991
• Title: Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Report 1981 - 1985
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Table C-4.-Summary of estimated water use by States and types of use
1983

(1, 000 acre-feet)
Estimated beneficial consumptive uses and losses"
Hu'i1idpaI Fish 'and Export;' Export Unmeasured
Reservoir Irrigated and wildlife outside within return
State evaooration aQricultureZ industrial' recreation system system flow Total
Arizona 280.4 3,548.2 517.2 30.6 0.0 3.0 -142.2 4.237.2 ,,--)
California 0.0 409.4 2.5 0.0 3,598.5 0.0 -57.8 3.952.6 (l . \'?-/ i-]
1.919.5 ...--' v
Colorado 82.3 1.373.7 40.1 0.0 423.4 0.0 0
Nevada 4.6 91.2 311. 6 1.1 0.0 -3.0 -66.2 339.3
New Mexico 39.0 198.8 55.6 0.9 131.2 0.0 0 425.5
Utah 63.0 587.1 43.1 0.0 24.9 0.0 0 718.1
Wyoming 36.7 257.6 45.2 0.0 6.6 0.0 0 346.1
Other4 1.896.2 0.0 --2..J1. ....Q...Q. 9,781.8 ....Q...Q. --2. 1l.67S.0
Colorado River
System total 2.402.2 6,466.0 1,015.3 32.6 13,966.4 0.0 -266.2 23.616.3

1 From tables UC-I, UC-4, LC-I, and LC-2.
J Includes livestock water use and stockpond evaporation.
J Includes water uses for thermal electric power generation and mineral resources.
4 Reservoir evaporation represents main stem reservoir evapor~tlon in the Upper Basin and Lower BasIn and maln.stem
channel losses for Lower Basin. Exports outside the system represents water passing to Mexico.