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<br />Water Use by States and Water Passing to Mexico
<br />Water use by slates, basins, and tributaries I
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<br /> (1,000 acrc,feet)
<br /> Average
<br />State 1981 1982 1983 1984 \985 198\,85
<br />Arizona 6,167 5,l43 4,237 5,041 4,838 5,085
<br />California 4,839 4,349 3,953 4,679 4,710 4,506
<br />Colorado . . .2,086 2,106 1,920 1,865 1,994 1,994
<br />Nevada . . 350 352 339 355 373 354
<br />New Mexico. 342 425 425 417 401 402
<br />Utah. . . 782 746 718 762 879 777
<br />Wyoming ...... . 341 330 346 307 336 332
<br />Otherl . . ........ . !,598 1,403 1,896 1,197 1,783 1,575
<br />Total
<br />Colorado River Basin 16,505 14,854 13,834 14,623 15,314 15,025
<br />Water Passing to Mexico
<br />Treaty, . . . . . !,751 1,495 1,646 1,694 1,671 1,652
<br />Minute 242 . . . 131 146 166 138 131 142
<br />Excess Releases 2,115 176 7,970 15,160 11,594 7,403
<br />Total
<br />Water Passing to Mexico 3,997 1,817 9,782 16,992 13,396 9,197
<br />Total. Colorado River
<br />S)"tem and Water
<br />Passing to Mexico .. .. 20,502 16,671 23,616 31,615 28,710 24,222
<br />NOTE:
<br />IThe above states' uses ace ansile consumptive uses and \osses and include water uses satisfied by
<br />found\\'3ter overdrafts.
<br />Represents main stem reservoir evaporation in the Upper Basin and main stem reservoir ewporalion
<br />Bnd channel loss below Lee Ferry in the Lower Basin.
<br />Source - "Colorado River S)"tcm Consumptive Uses and Losses Report, 1981-1985 (June 1991)"
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