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<br />. <br />l'~ <br />o <br />00 <br /> <br />'" <br /> <br />" <br />" <br /> <br />supplies in Colorado ancl Gtah will be transferred to energy users by the year <br />2000. Plotkin et al. (1979) believe that the UCRB will be the site of a <br />substantial amount of conflict between energy and agriculture for water supply, <br />and that water will be the largest constraint to energy c1evelopment. <br /> <br />Water consumption by energy related users is associated with, in order of <br />expectecl usage, oil shale. thermal-electric fossil fuel power generation, coal <br />gasification ancl liquefaction, and conventional coal mining. The remainder <br />generally has little water requirements except for those associated with the <br />incressed population. Exclucling coal slurry lines ancl basell on some rather <br />tentative high water requirements c1ata, it is estimatecl that about 107,300 ha- <br />m/yr of water will be neecled to meet energy development needs in the UCRB by <br />the year 2000 (USDI, 1974). <br /> <br />.. It is estimated that even moclerate synfuels development in the state of <br />C,<llorado will require water storage projects costing as mucha~ $2...5 billion:.. <br />By the year 2000 it is projectecl that there "Will be a 64,000 m I cI shale oil <br />,industry ancl a quadrupling of uranium milling capacity, coal procluction and <br />electric generation in Color.aclo. The wate:ravailability question in the Upper <br />Basin states is discussed in more detail by Hansen (1976) ancl USDI, BR (1974). <br />The potentiel conflicts of energy development and the existing legal water <br />rights structures in the UCRB are examined by Weetherforcl ancl Jacoby (1975) <br />and Gardner et al. (1976). <br /> <br />31 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />" <br />" <br /> <br />.\-., <br /> <br /><'". <br />,.f.,-. <br /> <br />~ <br />