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Projecting Tribal Water Use

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Basic Principles

Source of Tribal Water Rights

Reserved to Insure the Tribes Growth and Prosperity in their Permanent Tribal Homeland

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Quantifying Tribal Water

DecreesSettlementsContract RightsTreatiesFederal and Tribal Reserved Rights

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Basis for Determining Amounts

Practicably Irrigable Acreage

Permanent Tribal Homeland

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Factors to Consider in Assessing Future

Tribal Water RightsRights Quantified in Tribal Settlements

Rights Not Quantified in Tribal Settlements

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More Factors to Consider

Tribes without Settlements

Future Water Requirements to 2110

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Current and Pending Adjudication

Total over 2 Million Acre-Feet

Not including Tribes with “Present and Perfected” but Unquantified Water Rights

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In Addition

Tribes without Full Settlements

Future Uses to 2110

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Still to Come

Breakout of Amounts by Basins and Sub-Basins

Estimates of Future Unquantified Water Requirements

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