WSP03306

• File Number: 8281.300
• Description: Colorado River Studies and Investigations - Colorado River Consumptive Uses and Losses Report
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1984
• Title: Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Report 1976 - 1980
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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TABLE C-2

Summary of Estimated Water Use by States and Types of Use

1976
(1,000 acre-feet)
Estimated Beneficial Consumptive Uses and Losses11
Municipal Fish and Export Export
Reservoir Irrigated and Wildlife Outside Within
State Evaporation Agriculture!! IndustriaI2! Recreation System System Total
Arizona 222.5 4,338.2 413.7 55.3 0.0 3.1 5,033
California 0 472.4 3.4 0 4,336.9 0 4,813
Colorado 41.5 1,104.1 38.4 0 494.8 0 1,679
Nevada 7.3 93.4 127.6 0.8 0 (-3.1) 226
New Mexico 25.2 l60.6 40.1 0 84.4 0 310
Utah 44.0 528.7 22.3 0 110.0 0 705
,... wyomin, 26.1 207.9 39.0 0 9.2 0 282
'" Other4 1,931.0 0 0 0 1,748.9 0 3,680
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Colorado River
System Total 2,298 6,905 685 56 6,784 0 16,728

l/ From Tables UC-I, UC-2, LC-I, and LC-2.
2/ Includes livestock water use and stockpond evaporation.
3/ Includes water uses for thermal electric power generation and mineral resources.
4/ Reservoir evaporation represents mainstem reservoir- evaporation in the Upper Basin and mainstream
reservoir evaporation and channel losses below Lee Ferry in the Lower Basin. Exports outside system repre-
sents water passing to Mexico.

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