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<br />Municipalities and many industries require large amoqnts of water. New <br />York. City, for example, uses 1045 liters (276 gallons) per person per day. <br />Along with appropriate conservation practices, precipitation enhancement could <br />help meet demands for clean water. An analysis of the potential of weather <br /> <br />Table !I-3--Annual Avera~e National Additional Production of Selected <br />Commodities and Goods, Based on 10-Percent Additional <br />Precipitation and 30-Percent Reduction in ~ail Damage During <br />Critical Periods in Main Production Areas. <br /> <br />Crops/Goods <br /> <br />Additional Quantity Produced (xl06) <br /> <br />Corn <br />Added precipitation <br />Reduc ed ha il <br />Total <br /> <br />38.0 bu <br />8.4 bu <br />46.4 bu <br /> <br />Wheat <br />Added precipitation <br />Reduc ed ha 11 <br />To tal <br /> <br />34.0 bu <br />3 0 . 6 bu <br />64.6 bu <br /> <br />Soybeans <br />Addedpreci pi ta tion <br />Reduc ed ha il <br />Total <br /> <br />18.4 bu <br />4.7 bu <br />23.1 bu <br /> <br />Western range <br />Forage <br />Range cattle <br /> <br />52,500 lb <br />4,375 lb <br /> <br />Irrigation water <br />Added orographic snowpack. <br /> <br />10.0 acre-ft <br /> <br />* ' <br />Quantities shown are for illustrative purposes and do not imply a weather <br />modification capability. <br /> <br />modification for augmenting municipal water supplies in the Connecticut River <br />Basin, made in the late 1960s. suggested that an additional 2 million acre-ft <br />of water could be provided from year-round cloud-seeding operations at a cost <br />of about one-fifth of the cost of the cheapest alternative. The estimated <br />annual net benefit was $1.4 million (1969 ~ollars); multiple uses of the water <br />would increase the benefits substantially.'+ . <br /> <br />Human life and property could also be protected by weather <br />modification. Weather-related disasters and hazards in the United States <br />claim about 1500 lives each year, with fog contributing to about ~~o-thirds of <br />the deaths (table II~~), while annual property damage amounts to billions of <br /> <br />- 10 - <br />