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-5

Summary of Estimated Water Use by States and Types of Use

~..,'" 1!}79
(1,000 acre-feet)
Estimated Beneficial Consumptive Uses and Los ses!/
Municipal Fish and Export Export
Reservoir Irrigated , and Wildlife Outsi4e Within
State Evaporation Agriculture1! Industda11/ Recreation System System Total
Arizona 413.0 4,477 .8 468.3 47.1 0.0 2.6 5,409
California 0 476.4 3.1 0 4,111.8 0 4,591
Colorado 57.6 1,217 .2 42.0 0 507.6 0 1,824
Nevada 5.7 BO.3 144.2 0.9 0 (-2.6) 228
New Mexico 27.9 193.l 46.3 0 164.2 0 432
Utah 48.2 587.5 35.4 0 126.7 0 798
N Wy6minr 31.8 257.5 49.0 0 9.7 348
N 0
Otheri 2,070.0 0 0 0 2,766.3 0 4,836
Colorado River
System Total 2,654 7,290 788 48 7,686 0 18,466

1/ From Tables UC-l, UC-5, LC-l, and LC-2.
2/ Includes livestock water use and stockpond evaporation.
l! Includes water uses for thermal electric power generation and mineral resources'.
~ Reservoir evaporation represents mainstem reservoir evaporation ln the Upper Basin, and mainstream
reservoir evaporation and channel losses below Lee Ferry in. the Lower.Basin. ~xports outside system repre-
sents water passing to Mexico.