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<br />AGRICULTURAL WATER DEMAND IN COLORADO <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />STATE OVERVIEW <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />YEAR IRRIGATED I IRRlGATION WITrIDRAWALS 1 CONVEY^,,-iCE IRRlGATION I TOTAL I IRRIG% <br /> LAL"TI I Ground 1 Surface 1 Total 1 LOSSES CONS. USE CONS, USE OF TOTAL <br /> 1000 acres I 1000 acre-feet Der vear 1 <br />1985 I 3354 I 2390 I 11500 I 13900 I 3220 5120 I 5448 I 94% <br />1990 I 3557 I 2870 I tOIOO I 13000 I 3350 5560 1 5885 1 94% <br />1995 I 3310 1 2260 I 12000 I 14300 1- 4226 5504 1 NA I NA <br />1998 I 3430 . 1 NA I t 1539;; I NA I NA NA 1 NA I NA <br /> <br />Information Sources: <br /> <br />"Estimated Use of Water in Colorado. 1985" (Table 8), U,S. Geological Survey. Water Resources Investigations Report 88- <br />4101. <br /> <br />"Estimated use of water in the United States in 1990" (Table 16). U,S, Geological Survey. <br /> <br />"Estimated use of water in the United States in 1995" (Table 16). U,S. Geological Survey, <br /> <br />. Irrigated land acreage figure for 1997 from the 1997 Census of Agriculture. Volume 1. Part 6 (Table I). <br /> <br />It Basin Water Fact Sheets. Colorado Water Conservation Board, September 2000. <br /> <br />BASIN DETAIL -1998 SURFACE WATER DIVERSIONS <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />RIVER BASIN i IRRIGA nON BASIN % OF TOTAL IRRIG % OF <br /> I 1000 acre-feet IRRlG TOT AI. DIVERSIONS It BASIN TOT AI. <br />South PactelReoublican Rive:- ! 2180 18.9% 4068 53.6% <br />Arkansas River I 2033 I 17.6% I 3734 54.4% <br />Rio Grande 1144 9,9% 1 1231 92.9% <br />Gunnison River 1934 16.8% I 6653 29.1% <br />Colorado River Mainstem 2185 18.9% 2885 I 75.7% <br />Yampa and White River 719 6,2% 1352 53,2% <br />Dolores and San Juan River 939 I 8.1% 1545 60.8% <br />North Platte 404 I 3.5% 414 I 97.6% <br />TOTALS 11.539 T 100% 21.882 52.7% <br /> <br />Informacion Source; <br /> <br />Basin Water Fact Sheets. Colorado Water Conservation BO'lrd. September 2000. <br /> <br />It For details on total diversions by type of diversion, see reVerse side. <br /> <br />Data compiled by the Resource Analysis Settion. Colorado Department of Agriculture, with assistance from the Colorado Water . <br />Conservation Board. Questions or comments? Plerase conmct: david.c:ulson@ae.state.co.us. 11/2000. . <br />