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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />COM <br /> <br />DRAFT Preliminary Water Demand Forecasts <br /> <br />Next Steps <br /> <br />The following are the next steps that will be taken to refine the projected water <br />demands for 2030. <br /> <br />. Low and high M&I water demand estimates will be made to bracket the baseline <br />demand with reasonable estimates. High and low population estimates will be <br />incorporated as well as the effects of increased water conservation, demographic <br />changes that increase or decrease the estimated per capita water use, and feedback <br />from the basin roundtables. <br /> <br />. Low and high estimates of future agricultural water demands will be made based <br />on assumptions regarding the transfer of agricultural water rights to M&I use or an <br />increase in irrigated acres. The baseline projections of agricultural water demand <br />for all b<tsins except the Arkansas and South Platte are that irrigated acreage will <br />remain constant. <br /> <br />. Additional increases or decreases in irrigated acres in all basins will be evaluated <br />during the alternatives phase of the project. Some basins have indicated a desire to <br />evaluate alternatives that will increase irrigated acres, while some alternatives may <br />involve <tdditional agricultural transfers to meet M&I demands. <br /> <br />5 <br /> <br />S:IMEETlNGS\CWCB 8OAFlO\PRELlMINARY DEMAND SUMMARY MEMO TO CWCB_1-20-04 REV, DOC <br />