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-6
,Summary of Estimated Water Use by States and Types of Use
1880
(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 437.4 4,676.1 467.6 56.4 0.0 3.0 5,641
California 0 469.5 2.8 0 4,207.9 0 4,680
Colorado 73.9 1,229.5 45.5 0 395.4 0 1,744
Nevada 6.3 77.1 151.9 1.1 0 (-3.0) 233
New Mexico 37.6 225.3 50.7 0 143.6 0 457
Utah 50.0 542.2 37.1 0 108.9 0 738
w Wyoming 31.2 243.0 53.9 0 9.3 0 337
Other4/ 2,063.0 0 0 0 6,142.8 0 8,206
Colorado River
System Total 2,699 7,463 809 57 11,008 0 22,036
1/ From Tables UC-1, UC-6, LC-1, and LC-2.
2/ Includes livestock water use and stockpond evaporation.
3/ Includes water uses for thermal electric power generati on and mine ral resources.
4/ Reservoir evaporation re presents mainstem reservoir eva poration in the Upper Basin and mainstream
reservoir evaporation and channel losses below Lee Ferry in the Lower Basin . Exports outside system repre-
sents water passing to Mexico.