<br />Estimated future.water requirements,
<br />Lower Basin ""..",..""""" .4,000,000
<br />(Includes Gila)
<br />Estimated future water requirements" 9,000,000
<br />
<br />9,000,000
<br />
<br />
<br />Acre Feet
<br />
<br />Approximate surplus """""".-,...."....""", 4,500,000
<br />
<br />Table 4
<br />Estimated average annual water supply"",""" _, ,20,500,000
<br />
<br />Acre Feet
<br />
<br />,
<br />
<br />Upper Division Allocation, includes
<br />present consumption ,_""", _ " 7,500,000
<br />Lower Division Allocation, includes
<br />. present consumption ..,""',..'." 7,500,000
<br />Lower Division permissible increase
<br />in water consumption"",,""" 1,000,000
<br />
<br />Total allocated or permitted, .. , , , .. , , , ,16,000,000
<br />Unallotted surplus
<br />
<br />16,000,000
<br />4,500,000
<br />
<br />Table 5
<br />
<br />Upper Basin water allotment..""""".."""",.. ,7,500,000
<br />
<br />Acre Feet
<br />Estimated present consumption,
<br />Upper Basin """",..,""",,2,500,000
<br />Estimated future water require-
<br />ments, Upper Basin, including
<br />tt'a:ns-mountain diversions ".."" ,5,000,000
<br />
<br />7,500,000
<br />
<br />7,500,000
<br />
<br />Table 6
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<br />COLORADO RIVER AREA IN 'I'HE STATE OF COLORADO (WESTERN SLOPE).
<br />Acre- Feet
<br />Estimated average yearly water supply, Western Slope,12,100,000
<br />Estimates present consumptive use pel' year on 859,000
<br />acres irrigated land ",.. , , , , , . , , , , , . _ .. , .. , , , , .. _ " 1,100,000
<br />
<br />Unused water passing out of Colorado, average yearly
<br />flow""""""", _",..""""""""",'.. ,11,000,000
<br />Estimates future requirements all new lands Western
<br />S~ope ,(1,500,000 acres) and futlll'e transmountain
<br />dIVerSIOns .."",..""'.,..",, _ , , _ .. _ , .. _ , , , , , . _, 2,600,000
<br />
<br />Average annual surplus water to main Colorado River, 8,400,000
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