4001

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 4001
• Author: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
• Title: Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Report 1976-1980.
• USFW Year: 1981.
• USFW - Doc Type: Washington, D.C.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE C-5
Summary of Estimated Water Use by States and Types of Use
1979
(1 000 acre-feet)
Estimated Beneficial Consumptive Uses and Losses_
Municipal Fish and Export Export
Reservoir Irrigated and Wildlife Outside Within
State Evaporation Agriculture/ Industrial3/ Recreation System System Total

Arizona 413.0 4,477.8 468.3 47.1 0.0 2.6 5,409
California 0 476.4 3.1 0 4,111.8 0 4,591
Colorado 57.6 1,217.2 42.0 0 507.6 0 1,824
Nevada 5.7 80.3 144.2 0.9 0 (-2.6) 228
New Mexico 27.9 193.1 46.3 0 164.2- 0 432
Utah 48.2 587.5 35.4 0 126.7 0 798
N
N Wyoming 31.8 257..5 49.0 0 9.7 0 348
Other4/ 2,070.0 0 0 0 2,766.3 0 4,836
Colorado River
System Total 2,654 7,290 788 48 7,6$6- 0 18,466
1/ From Tabl es UC-1, UC-5, LC-1, and LC-2.
2/ Includes livestock water use and stockpon d evaporation.
3/ Includes water uses for thermal electric power generati on and mineral resources.
4/ Reservoir evaporation re presents mainstem reservoir eva poration in the Upper Basin and mainstream
reservoir evaporat ion and channel losses below Lee Ferry in the Lower Basin. Exports outside system repre-
sents water passin g to Mexico.