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<br />00:31;3 <br /> Table 1 <br /> Reductions in Irrigation Use <br /> Requlred to Meet Growth <br /> in Urban Water Use and Irrigated Acreage in Organizations <br />State Reduction in Irrigation Use Share Acreage Share Acreage Dis tricts <br /> (%) in in Mutuals <br /> Organizations <br /> I II III <br />Az 15.93 10.57 5.43 .50.6 14.8 66.2 <br />CA 5.82 8.24 2.41 68.0 13.2 83.5 <br />CO 4.45 233 0.51 78.2 89.4 9.1 <br />ID 2.65 0.48 . 753 61.9 29.5 <br />KS 0.68 0.87 . 3.7 0.0 . 77.0 <br />MT 0.97 0.04 . 80.1 61.1 24.9 <br />NO 4.14 . . 25.0 0.0 91.2 <br />NE 0.40 . . 14.1 7.5 90.8 <br />NM 4.26 6.68 3.11 54.4 39.9 32.4 <br />NY 13.50 6.07 291 87.4 50.6 42.2 <br />OK 58.73 22.43 . 3.7 0.0 77.0 <br />OR 9.74 0.71 . 55.7 35.9 60.6 <br />"SD . 1.74 . 27.5 16.3 83.8 <br />TX 25.44 23.38 8.42 15.2 1.5 71.3 <br />UT 12.92 5.20 0.37 100.0 85.4 6.0 <br />WA 17.93 9.06 . 30.0 10.6 77.4 <br />WY 3.82 0.14 . 80.0 38.3 30.9 <br /> <br />West <br /> <br />8.75 <br /> <br />6.96 <br /> <br />2.00 <br /> <br />56.4 <br /> <br />. 32.9 <br /> <br />54.8 <br /> <br />· denotes forecasted decline in urban water use. <br /> <br />Scenario <br />I <br />II <br />III <br /> <br />Assumotion <br />1985 forecasted population growth, constant real water price. <br />1988 forecasted population growth, constant real water price. <br />1988 forecasted population growth, doubled real water price. <br /> <br />Sources: "Evaporating Water Markets?: New Contingencies for Urban Water Use," Water <br />Strategist 11 (July 1989) (for reductions in irrigation use); Smith, 'Troubled Waters: Financing <br />Water in the West," Investment and Financing in the West 13-27 (1984) (for share of irrigated <br />acreage in irrigation organizations and distnbution among mutuals and irrigation districts). <br /> <br />8 <br />