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-4

Summary of Estimated Water Use by States and Types of Use

1978
0,000 acre-feed
Estimated Beneficial Con~umptive Uses and Losses!1
Municipal Fish and Export Export
Reservoir Irrigated and Wildlife Outside Within
State Evaporation Agriculturdl IndustriaI2! Recreation System System Total
Arizona 306.5 4,549.0 446.9 46.4 0.0 2.4 5,35l
California 0 475.4 2.9 0 4,146.1 0 4,624
Colorado 62.0 1,196.9 43.1 0 634.8 0 1,937
Nevada 5.7 84.8 l35.3 0.9 0 (-2.4) 224
New Mexico 31.5 180.0 43.9 0 105.1 0 36l
Utah 50.1 551.9 31.2 0 112.6 0 746
N wyomin, 30.2 248.6 46.1 0 8.5 0 333
..... Othe6 1,887.0 0 0 0 1,744.5 0 3,632
Colorado River
System Total 2,373 7,287 749 47 6,752 0 17 ,208

II From Tables UC-l, UC-4, LC-I, and LC-2.
21 Includes livestock water use and stockpond evaporation.
'31 Includes water uses for thermal electric power generation and mineral resources.
if 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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