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-6.-5ummary of estimated water use by States and types of use
1985

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(1,000 acre-feet)
Estimated beneficial consumptive uses and losses1
Municipal Fish and Export Expot"t Unmeasured
ResE7rvoir I,rr iga~ed ,and wHd:l:lfe outside'" within return
I- State evaporation aqriculture2 industr ia l' recreation system system flow Total
Arizona 266.2 4,120.0 585.2 6.0 0.0 3.0 -142.3 4,838.1
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CalHarn ia 0.0 455.9 3.3 0.0 4,308.6 0.0 -57.7 4,110.1 ["."
1,359.4 0.0 509.6 0.0 0.0 -----
Colorado 86.3 38.5 1,993.8
Nevada 4.7 102.6 336.0 1.0 0.0 -3.0 -69.2 372.1
New Mexico 38.4 211.0 58.1 0.9 92.8 0.0 0 401.2
U~ah 69.0 705.5 45.3 0.0 59.6 0.0 0 879.4
Wyoming 30.5 250.4 44.2 0.0 11.3 0.0 0 336.4
Other' L 782.9 0.0 0.0 .Q..J2. 13,395.9 .Q..J2. -2. 15,178.8
Colorado River
Sys~em ~otal 2,278.0 7,204.8 1, 1l0.6 7.9 18,377.8 0.0 -269.2 28,709.9

1 From tables UC-l, UC-6, LC-l, and LC-2.
2 Includes livestock water use and stockpond evaporation.
J Includes water uses for thermal electric power generation and-mineral resources.
. Reservoir evaporation represents main stem reservoir evaporation In the Upper Bas~n and Lower
channel losses for Lower Basin. Exports outside the system represents water passing to Mexico.

Basin and main stem

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