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M <br />using an average value of $450,000 for each milligram per <br />liter reduction in dissolved solids at Imperial Dam, and <br />$10.5 million from water supplies to reduce deficits and for <br />new uses. <br />Additional benefits would be realized from the increased <br />water supply in the Lower Basin from seeding in the Mogollon <br />Rim area in Arizona and New Mexico and from additional water <br />supplies producRd in adjacent tasins. 'For planning purposes, <br />an estimated value of $5U per acre -foot was used for the <br />298,000 acre -feet of augmentation from the Mogollon Rim and <br />$25 per acre -foot for the 533,000 acre -feet of increase in <br />the adjacent basins. Therefore, total benefits are assumed <br />to be $109 million annually. It is estimated that the entire <br />cost of an 8 -year demonstration program is less than the <br />benefits from one year of basinwide operations. <br />IV. Financial Arrangements <br />Increased water supplies will be required soon in the <br />Colorado River Basin because of rapidly expanding population <br />and industrial requirements, environmental and recreational <br />needs, and demand for increased hydroelectric power generation. <br />In addition, the Mexican Water Treaty of 1944 constitutes a <br />national - obligation to provide 1.5 million acre -feet of <br />water annually to Mexico. <br />