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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />' Yampa Valley Water Demand Projections <br />Over the past nine years, total water diversions in the Yampa Valley have <br />' ,ranged between 400,000 acre-feet per year and 500,000 acre-feet per year. Much of the <br />water diverted from the Yampa River ultimately returns to the stream, so consumptive <br />use is considerably less than total diversions. Based upon relationships between <br />' diversions and consumptive use by type of use, annual consumptive use has varied <br />from about 110,000 acre-feet to 130,000 acre-feet. <br />' Irrigated crop production and livestock watering account for more than ninety <br />percent of water diversions in the Yampa Valley and about eighty percent of water <br />consumption. Among non-agricultural water uses, cooling water for electric generation <br />far exceeds municipal demands and all other types of use combined, as shown in <br />Exhibit S-4. <br />Base case water demand projections for year 2045. To project how diversions <br />and consumption may change over the next 50 years, BBC incorporated the economic <br />and demographic projections along with water demand factors for each major category <br />' of water use. We developed three sets of water demand projections for the base case, <br />BBC Research & Consulting ES - T <br />