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5.0 Results <br />StateCU was used to combine the other use results with the crop consumptive use <br />estimates to create the Consumptive Uses and Losses Summary. Table 1 provides a <br />summary of consumptive uses and loses, by year, for the Rio Grande basin. Table 1 is <br />similar in layout to the USBR Colorado River Consumptive Uses and Losses Report and <br />includes the following consumptive uses and losses categories: <br />• Reservoir Evaporation <br />• Fish/Wildlife, and Recreational Use <br />• Agricultural Use <br />- Irrigation <br />- Stockpond evaporation <br />- Livestock Use <br />• Municipal and Industrial Use <br />- Mineral Resources <br />- Thermal Electric Power <br />- Other Use (rural, urban, municipal and other industrial uses) <br />• Exports <br />As shown in Table 1, average annual consumptive uses and losses due to man's <br />influence in the Rio Grande basin total 1,063,900 acre-feet for the period of 1991 through <br />1995. This estimate includes an incidental loss factor of 5 percent. <br />Information from Table 1 shows that consumptive use due to irrigation, including <br />incidental losses, is 94.4 percent of the total. The next largest use, at 2.5 percent, is loss <br />from reservoir evaporation. Water consumed to maintain wetlands for wildlife purposes <br />accounts for 2.2 percent of the basin consumptive use. The other uses combined, <br />including livestock, mineral, municipal, and industrial uses, account for less than 1 <br />percent of the consumptive uses and losses in the basin. <br />Figure 3 graphically displays the annual results of the Rio Grande Consumptive Uses <br />and Losses Summary. Note that agricultural consumptive use dominates the basin total. <br />RGDSScusumm.doc 8 of 11 November, 2000 <br />