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<br />Section 7 <br />Availability of Existing Water Supplies in the North Platte Basin <br /> <br />Increases in M&I and Self-Supplied Industrial CUs <br /> <br />Table 7-1 Factors that May Affect Future Availability (Legal and/or Physical) of Supplies in the North Platte Basin <br /> <br /> <br />Evaporation from new or enlarged reservoirs <br /> <br />Increased reuse of existing consumable return flows <br /> <br />New or increased transbasin diversions out of the basin <br />Increase in agricultural CU <br />. Increase in irrigated lands <br />. Development of additional supplies to reduce or eliminate <br />agricu Itural shortages <br />. Changes in irrigation efficiency such as conversion to sprinklers <br />. Changes to higher CU crops <br />. Diversion by downstream agricultural users of increases in M&I <br />return flows <br />Development of irrigated lands resulting in a net increase in CU <br />increased de letions er acre <br />Additional flow requirements for species protection (e.g., endangered <br />species) <br />RICDs and in stream flow water rights filings (decrease in legal <br />availability above the water right) <br />Increase in coverage of phreatophytes or change in type of <br />phreatophytes <br /> <br />Additional bypass flow requirements for existing projects <br /> <br />Increase in coverage of phreatophytes or change in type of <br />hreato h tes <br />Hydrologic variability (e.g., climate change resulting in reduced runoff <br />or extended droughts) <br /> <br />S:\1177\Basin Reports\North Platte\S7 _North Platte.doc <br /> <br />Reduction in M&I and Self-Supplied Industrial CUs such as reducing <br />lawn areas and industrial rocess improvements <br />Return flows from CU agricultural transfers that cannot be recaptured <br />and reused <br />Unused CU yields from an agricultural transfer that cannot be stored <br />b M&I or SSI users <br />Increase in transbasin im orts <br />Decrease in agricultural CU <br />. Reduction in irrigated lands to lack of supplies for well <br />augmentation <br />. Transfer of agricultural rights for dedication to in stream flows <br />(increase in availability below the instream flow reach) <br />. Changes to lower CU by crops <br />. Changes in crop types <br /> <br />Development of irrigated lands resulting in a net decrease in CU <br />(decreased de letions per acre) <br />Runoff from increase in impervious areas <br /> <br /> <br />CONI <br /> <br />7-3 <br />