White Red Table 36.--Total Water Requirements for Public Land Programs in year 1980 by Region and State, by Agency, Total Consumptive Use in Acre-Feet per Year. Agency : Missouri Arkansas (9) 80 1,282 3,607 2,219 5,117 3,204 Forest Service 21,714 1,216 8,970 60,888 19,506 National Park Service 411 7 10 Pish and Wildlife 989,713 50 63,824 Bureau of Reclamation 363 39 57 688 51,444 329 3,665 78,772 135 482,836 123,773 369,932 2,160,344 Atomic Energy Commission 35 613 2,431 4,002 2,016 2,789 National Aeronautic and Space Admin. Agricultural Research Service 147 149 7,971 46 1,419 9,436 Army 2,888 12,883 111 4,368 3,979 666 5,455 30,350 Air Force 1,099 3,827 250 538. 18 - 386 1,407 887 8,140 16,780 1,024,015 4,671 91,086 117,067 110,367 496,190 207,273 426,591 2,477,260 Federal Agency responses to Public Land Law Review Commission. Table 37.--Total Water Requirements for Public Land Programs in Year 2000 by Region and State, by Agency. Total Consumptive Use in Acre-Feet per Year. Source: Federal Agency responses to Public Land Law Review Commission. Use of Water by Federal Agencies Compared with Total Use To demonstrate the significance of the current, 1980 and year 2000 annual water requirement by federal agencies on public lands in the 11 western states, a comparison is made with the total annual water requirements for those years for all consumptive use of water requirements in the 11 western states. This was done by water resource region based on data contained in The Nation's Water Resources. 13/Total water use in each region was divided into six categories--rural, domestic, municipal, industrial, steam-electric power, irrigation and livestock. The year 1965 is used to compare to the present (1967) federal agency uses because The Nation's Water Resources presented data for that year. It is considered that the effect of the two-year difference is insignificant and that both years may be considered "current" for purposes of this study. Tables 38 through 45 present all present and future consumptive water uses for 1965, 1980 and year 2000 by each of the six categories of use, the total use for each region, and, for comparative purposes, the total federal agency use within the respective region for each of the eight water resource regions. The federal agency uses refer only to such uses on public lands within the 11 western states. For the Missouri, Arkansas-White-Red, and Rio Grande Regions it was necessary to present the uses for the entire regions. Data were not available from which to derive the total uses separately in the 11 western states portion of those regions. The federal agency uses as shown are for only the portion of the 11 western states. in those three regions. The other five regions, Upper Colorado, Lower Colorado, Great Basin, Columbia-North Pacific and California, are entirely within the study area and therefore direct comparisons can be made in those five regions between total use and federal agency use. 13/ U. S. Water Resources Council, supra note 2. |