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0 SUMMARY <br />This report presents estimates of the consumptive uses and <br />losses from the Colorado River System for each calendar <br />year from 1996 through 2000. It includes a breakdown of the <br />beneficial consumptive use by major types of use, by major <br />tributary streams, and, where 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 system to <br />adjoining areas. The following table summarizes annual water <br />use from the system by basins and States, including water use <br />supplied by ground -water overdraft. 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 />• <br />iii <br />