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<br />i <br /> <br />Yuma Desalting Plant <br />Model Narrative <br /> <br />Welcome to the Bureau of Reclamation's Yuma Projects <br />Office and to the Yuma Desalting Plant. Reclamation's <br />Yuma Projects Office is the watermaster for about 6 <br />million acre-feet of Colorado River water that's diverted <br />for irrigation each year at hnperial Dam-20 miles <br />upstream of Yuma-and delivered to Mexico at Morelos <br />Dam, west of Yuma. <br /> <br />The Yuma Desalting Plant plays an important part in this <br />water delivery system. It's the largest reverse osmosis <br />desalting plant in the world. <br /> <br />The desalting plant accomplishes 2 main goals: first, it <br />helps the United States meet treaty-required salinity and <br />water quantity standards for Colorado River water the U.S. <br />delivers to Mexico at Moralos Dam; and secondly, the <br />plant helps save about 80 thousand acre-feet of water per <br />year that otherwise would be too brackish (or salty) to <br />re-use. <br /> <br />The water to be processed flows to the plant in a <br />concrete-lined canal (technically called a drain since drains <br />carry water away from fanns and usually back to the river). <br />Drainage water from fannlands east of Yuma flows <br />through this drain to the desalting plant. <br /> <br />C:'P8ated\SCripls\mOdel.cI1p (model.oty) <br />