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<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 <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />~ <br /> <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 <br /> <br />[ 9 ] <br />