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<br />CDIVI <br /> <br />Update on Statewide Water Supply Initiative <br />- South Platte Basin <br /> <br />impact of these changes on rural Colorado economies, and the effect on the open <br />space provided by farms and ranches, is a key challenge for all Coloradans. In other <br />areas of the state, localized decreases and increases in agricultural water use are also <br />expected. A net increase in agricultural water use may occur in the Yampa/White/ <br />Green and the San Juan/Dolores/San Miguel Basins. <br /> <br />80A> <br /> <br />10A> <br /> <br />20A> <br /> <br /> <br />o Agricultural <br />.M&I <br />oSSI <br /> <br /> <br />o Agricultural <br />.M&I <br /> <br />oSSI <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />910A> <br /> <br />2000 <br /> <br />2030 <br /> <br />Figure 2 <br />2000 and 2030 Statewide Agricultural, M&I, and SSI Demands <br /> <br />South Platte Background <br /> <br />Nearly two-thirds of the increase in the state gross demand by 2030, approximately <br />409,700 AF, will be in the South Platte Basin. In SWSI, M&I is defined as all of the <br />water use of a typical municipal system, including residential, commercial, industrial, <br />irrigation and firefighting. Large industrial water uses that have their own water <br />supplies or lease raw water from others are described as SSI water users. For the <br />purposes of SWSI in evaluating these regional water needs, counties in the South <br />Platte Basin have been aggregated into subbasins. These subbasins and changes in <br />population from 2000 to 2030 on a county level are shown in Figure 3. Table 4 shows <br />the total population and percent increases for the counties of the South Platte Basin. <br /> <br />4 <br /> <br />SWSI Update - South Platte Basin <br />