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<br />Power water use was 7,393 million gallons per day, making it the second <br />largest category of water use in the State. Fossil-fuel plants used 121 <br />million gallons per day while producing 26,500 gigawatt-hours of net power, <br />nuclear-power plants used 1.6 million gallons per day but produced no power <br />during 1985, and hydroelectric-power plants used 7,270 million gallons per day <br />while producing 2,400 gigawatt-hours of net power. Less than 1 percent of <br />this water was consumptive use. <br /> <br />Among counties of Colorado, most water was used in Montrose (3,260 <br />million gallons per day), Mesa (1,940 million gallons per day), and Gunnison <br />(1,520 million gallons per day) Counties. The predominant water uses in these <br />counties were hydroelectric power and irrigation. Among hydrologic subregions <br />in Colorado, most water was used in the Gunnison (5,630 million gallons per <br />day) and South Platte (4,350 million gallons per day) subregions; hydro- <br />electric power water use was predominant in the Gunnison while irrigation <br />water use was predominant in the South Platte. <br /> <br />28 <br />