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<br />Water Use by States and Water Passing to Mexico
<br />Water use by states, basins, and tributaries1
<br />
<br />State
<br />
<br />1981
<br />
<br /> (1,000 acre-feel)
<br /> Average
<br />1982 1983 1984 1985 1981-85
<br />5,143 4,237 5,041 4,838 5,085
<br />4,349 3,953 4,679 4,710 4,506
<br />2,106 1,920 1,865 1,994 1,994
<br />352 339 355 373 354
<br />425 425 417 401 402
<br />746 718 762 879 777
<br />330 346 307 336 332
<br />1,403 1,896 1,197 1,783 1,575
<br />14,854 13,834 14,623 15,314 15,025
<br />1,495 1,646 1,694 1,671 1,652
<br />146 166 138 131 142
<br />176 7,970 15,160 11,594 7,403
<br />1,817 9,782 16,992 13,396 9,197
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<br />Arizona ............. 6,167
<br />California ............ 4,839
<br />Colorado ............ .2,086
<br />Nevada ....... ...... 350
<br />New Mexico . . . ., ...... 342
<br />Utah . . . . . . . .. ...... 782
<br />Wyoming ............. 341
<br />Other2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,598
<br />Total
<br />Colorado River Basin ." 16,505
<br />
<br />Water Passing to Mexico
<br />Treaty . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,751
<br />Minute 242 . . . . . . . . .. 131
<br />Excess Releases ...... 2,115
<br />Total
<br />Water Passing to Mexico 3,997
<br />
<br />Total- Colorado River
<br />System and Water
<br />Passing to Mexico .....20,502
<br />
<br />16,671
<br />
<br />2.1,616
<br />
<br />31,615
<br />
<br />28,710
<br />
<br />24,222
<br />
<br />NOTE:
<br />\The above states' uses are onsile consumptive uses and losses and include water uses satisfied by
<br />foundwater overdrafts.
<br />Represents main stem reservoir evaporation in the Upper Basin and main stem reservoir evaporation
<br />and channel loss below Lee Ferry in the Lower Basin.
<br />
<br />Source - "Colorado River Syslem Consumptive Uses and Losses Report, 1981-1985 (June 1991)"
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