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<br />Water Use by States and Water Passing to Mexico
<br />Water use by states, basins, and tributariegl
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<br /> (Million Cubic Meters)
<br /> Average
<br />State 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1561-85
<br />Arizona ........... 7,607 6,344 5,226 6,218 5,%8 6,272
<br />California. . . . . . . . . . 5,969 5,364 4,876 5,n2 5,810 5,558
<br />Colorado .. .. .. . .. . 2,573 2,598 2,368 2,300 2,460 2,460
<br />Nevada ........... 432 434 418 438 460 437
<br />New Mexico . . . . . . . . 422 524 524 514 495 496
<br />Utah ............. 965 920 886 940 1,084 958
<br />Wyoming . . . . . . . . . . 421 407 427 379 414 410
<br />Othe? ............ 1,971 1,731 2,339 1,476 2,199 1,943
<br />Total
<br />Colorado River Basin 20,359 18,322 17,064 18,037 18,890 18,533
<br />Water Passing to Mexico
<br />Treaty .. . . . . . . . . . 2,159 1,844 2,030 2,090 2,061 2,038
<br />Minute 242 ..... .. 162 180 205 170 162 175
<br />Excess Releases . . . . 2,609 217 9,831 18,700 14,301 9,132
<br />Total
<br />Water Passing to Mexico 4,930 2,241 12,066 20,960 16,524 11,344
<br />Total - Colorado River
<br />System and Water
<br />Passing to Mexico .. 25,289 20,564 29,130 38,997 35,414 29,878
<br />NOTE:
<br />IThe above states' uses are onsite consumptive uses and losses and include water uscs satisfied by groundwater overdrafts.
<br />2 Represents main stem reservoir evaporation in the Upper Basin and main stem reservoir evaporation and channel loss
<br />below Lees Ferry in the Lower Basin.
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<br />Source - "Colorado River System Consumptive Uses and Losses Report, 1981-1985 (June 1991)"
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<br />To convert million cubic meters to acre-feet, multiply by 810.7.
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