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r I M~"?1:7 I I t I <;\Jlotment of Colorado III Ri Vel' water: I U Up to 1. 7 million acre-feet Z The first years of cl Percentage of allocation .. r CI that is developed: commonwealth) were cess of the settlement cl 54 percent Mormon settlement saw desired goals. With these experiment. In order to ... Population served by the development of what factors in mind, pioneer minimize contention and cl Colorado _River water: may be called a pioneer leaders stressed agricul- to channel efforts towards 1,180,000 pattern of water adminis- ture as the first industry. the common goals of tration. Mormon pioneers As the process of Mormon establishing communities, Populalionserved by arrived with few economic expansion progressed, the leaders of the church Colorado River power: resources other than their agricultural' possibilities applied firm discipline in 1,767,000 own potential for hard dictated the characteristics establishing Mormon work and their resolve to and location of Mormon colonies. I establish an independent colonies. The early church lead- I Irrigated - acres:'served _ by Colorado River water: commonwealth. In this At the beginning of set- ers believed that by pro- 340,000 circumstance, successful tlement, the availability of moting cooperative insti- colonization depended water resources dictated tutions, the beneficial use I Major crops under irrigation: directly upon a collective where the Mormons of water and other I l'aSlure,alfaIfa, - grains effort to develop and stopped and what they did, resources would be gener- I administer water forcing them to change ally promoted and joint or p'~rcentage (If c'ontribution :)f resources for the common their methods of farming community projects would Qolorado River water to m('d- good. Water management and alter many social prac- be encouraged. iilg shlle's water need:,,: j was introduced in July of lices. Cooperation, central Much of the state still ~ 15 percent 1847 as an essential ele- church coordination, small looks like a forbidding ment of pioneering. diversified farms, and col- desert. There haven't -A veragc pI(.~cipitati(jn in During the next five years, lective irrigation became been many changes in areas of stlite 8etv(~d by water resource use integral components of the nearly a century and a Colorado River water: remained under the close pioneer mode of agricul- half. While Utah is 12.- 14 inches direct administration of tural (water) development. famous for a number of the church. The environment was an things, including its snow :1J.- verage precipitation The most immediate obstacle that the settlers and heralded skiing areas, on \'rutershed: concern of Utah's first had to overcome. It also it actually is one of the 12- 14 in"h.. pioneers, when they imposed upon them devel- driest states in the nation. arrived in the Great Salt opmentallimits they had The average annual pre- C MajorJacilities wbich-dehvel" Lake Valley in July of to acknowledge in order to cipitation is right around Coloradn River-.water: 1847, was to begin the survive. Although water 15 inches. It's no wonder ~ Cenaalllla.h Projcot, Bmery process of farming. Food that could be used for irri- Co~uty ProJ.ect, ?tl'awherr~ had to be provided if they gation purposes seemed Z Valley P~ojed, Quail Creok were to survive. Drought relatively abundant at the Project, Recapture Project, and isolation were facts of time, the pioneers realized Price-River Project, MO()H the environment; integrity that successful settlement I l,;akeProject, Longpark of the group and self-suffi- would occur only where Project, Escalanl~ Project. ciency (because of the water resources were Ferron Proje", (Millsite), desire for an independent available. R"lob Project, Gunlock Because of the razor- Projeel, Spanisb V all~y Project thin survival margin in the pioneers' new surround- ings, effective use of all the resources available was important to the suc-, ! .