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Mountain Reservoir provide a substantial amount of storage water and/or have been reoperated to benefit the fish. The same is true for Navajo Reservoir in the San Juan Program. 3. Major portions of both the Upper Basin Program annual operating budget and the capital budget are derived from the sale ofCRSP hydroelectric power. If Lake Powell were to drop below the minimum elevation necessary to produce hydroelectric power, the Upper Basin Program and the water projects that rely on the program would be in serious trouble. 4. The Upper Basin Program only provides certainty for Upper Basin water uses to the extent it is successful. We must make continued progress toward recovery of the listed fish species or all bets are off. Glen Canyon Dam is facing a separate and challenging set of environmental issues. There are both ESA issues and general river and riparian area habitat issues in the Grand Canyon below Glen Canyon Dam. The Grand Canyon Protection Act passed by Congress in 1992135 set up an Adaptive Management Pro gram 136 or AMP. The AMP is a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency program to address environmental issues through the Grand Canyon. In late 2006, Reclamation initiated the preparation of an EIS on what is being referred to as the Long-Term Experimental Plan (L TEP). The website states that the "proposed plan would implement a structured, long term program of experimental (including dam operations, potential modifications to Glen Canyon Dam intake structures, and their potential management actions, such as removal of non-native fish species) in the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam." Growth and Water Use in the Colorado River Basin Initially, the growth in water demands was the result of irrigated agriculture. However, since 1960 and especially since the late 1980s, population growth throughout the Colorado River Basin has been explosive. In 1960 when Arizona was fighting with California over water rights to support, it had a population of just over 1.3 million people. By 2000, its population had reached 5.13 million people and by 2030 Arizona is projected to have reached a staggering 10.7 million people! 137 Arizona's water use presents a different picture. In 1970, the year from which data on water are available from the Consumptive Uses and Losses Report, Arizona used 4,756,000 af'38 In 2000, the last year for which published data is available, Arizona used 4,791,000 af, virtually the same as 1970. The water use figures include mainstem uses, tributary uses and groundwater uses. The 135 Public Law 102-575. (1992). 136 See www.usbr.gov/ud/rrnlamo/background. 137All of the population data was obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau website. 138 All of the consumptive use data is from the Consumptive Uses and Losses Report available on the USBR website. Page -52-