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• <br />Consumptive Uses and Losses <br />111 <br />SUMMARY <br />This report shall present the provisional estimates of the <br />consumptive uses and losses from the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin for each calendar year from 2001 through 2005. <br />Currently, this report contains data through 2004. As further <br />data are available this report shall be updated. This report <br />includes a breakdown of the beneficial consumptive use by <br />major types of use, by major tributary streams, and, where <br />possible, by individual States. <br />The Colorado River rises in the Rocky Mountains of <br />Colorado, flows southwesterly about 1,400 miles and <br />terminates in the Gulf of California. Its drainage area of <br />242,000 square miles in this country represents one- fifteenth <br />of the area of the United States. Its water is used for <br />irrigation, municipal and industrial, purposes, electric power <br />generation, mineral activities, livestock, fish and wildlife, and <br />recreation. Large amounts are exported from the basin to <br />adjoining areas.' The following tables summarize annual <br />i water use from the basin by States. Distribution of water use <br />by types of use from the various reporting areas is contained <br />within the body of the report. <br />• <br />