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<br />. <br /> <br />w <br />~ <br />w <br />c.o <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Storage Project (CRSP) reservoir evaporat ion..!I In addit ion there are a <br />number of water development projects now under construction and on some of <br />the recently completed units water use is building up to project capacities. <br />Several projects have been authorized for construction but work has not yet <br /> <br />been initiated. In addition, studies are being made of numerous in-Basin <br />projects that would develop water for irrigated agriculture, coal and oil <br />shale development, thermal-electric generation, and municipal and industrial <br /> <br />purposes. Some of the projected future developments provide for increased <br />transmountain diversions to the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains in <br />Colorado, to the Bonneville Basin in Utah, to the Rio Grande Basin in New <br />Mexico, and to the Platte River Basin in Wyoming. <br />Estimates of both 1979 water use and projected future use through the <br />year 1995 for each of the seven states were furnished by the states. Since <br />future water use is subject to many uncertainties and will be dependent on <br /> <br />many variables, three possible future water depletion levels were developed <br />for use in salt routing studies. These were identified as low, moderate, and <br />high. The three projected possible levels of depletion were based on antici- <br />pated demand and arei ndependent of physical 1 imitations on water supply. <br /> <br />The terminology of "low, moderate, and high" is not to be taken as implying <br />that the projection designated as "moderate" is the most probable one. <br /> <br />Rather, the three terms merely reflect the relative rate of increased use for <br /> <br />one project ion as compared to the others. <br /> <br /> <br />Projected depletions in the Upper Basin under 1995 conditions of deve10p- <br /> <br />ment, exclusive of CRSP reservoir evaporation, range from a low of about <br /> <br /> <br />4,175,000 to a high of 4,867,000 acre..feet. Not included in these figures is <br /> <br />1/ Evaporation from Navajo Reservoir is included as a part of New Mexico's <br />water use. <br /> <br />9 <br /> <br />! ) <br />,hJ <br />