Domestic population Served by her waters:
          Nearly 25 Million people annually

     States Served in the Upper Basin:
          Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico

     States served in the Lower Basin:
          Arizona, California, and Nevada

     Watershed area:
          246,000 square miles

     Amount of water guaranteed to Mexico:
          1.5 million acre-feet

     Amount of electricity generated in 1996
          12,200,000,000,000 kilowatt hours
          (12.2 trillion kilowatt hours)
 

The waters of the Colorado River are distributed to major cities throughout the west
including: Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and numerous others.
 
 
 

             One Month of Power Production in 1999

The Hoover Dam	397,000kW	77,656,000kWh	$927,000
Parker- Davis/ Adv Fnd	57,000kW	26,613,000kWh	$156,000
Salt Lake Projects	22,000kW	16,680,000kWh	$327,000
Supplemental Purchases	0 kW	17,300,000kWh	$373,000
Total	476,000	138,249,000	$1,783,000

 
 

The River also provides us the following agricultural benefits:
 

• $1.5 Billion a year in crops and livestock
• More than 1.4 million acres of irrigation
• Over 15 percent of our nation’s crops
• Over 13 percent of our nation’s livestock

This great wonder provides the people it surrounds with the necessary resources some of us take for granted.
 

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