• The City of Yuma is particularly fortunate, in that the City has a contract with the Secretary of Interior for the delivery of 50,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water annually.

• Historically, the City of Yuma has returned between 35-40% of the water that is diverted

• In the year 2014, the City had a total return flow credit of 10,631 acre-feet

• Second WWTP looking at Purple Pipe project along with Agua Viva Lake

• Household consumption has reduced 17.2% over the past 7 years

Concrete Lined Ditch High Flow Irrigation Turnouts

GPS-based Laser Leveling Use of Bolas to Reduce Resistance to Water Flow in Furrows

• Acreage for vegetables has increased six fold over the past 40 years

• Irrigation water diverted to farms has decreased 15 percent since 1990 and nearly 18 percent since 1975 Factors contributing to this reduction in water use include a reduction in irrigable acres, expanded use of multi-crop production systems that require less water and significant improvements in crop and irrigation management and infrastructure.

• Nearly 70 percent of the irrigable acres now support multi-crop production systems that include a winter vegetable crop followed by durum wheat, melons, short season cotton or Sudan grass. The water requirements of these multi-crop systems are typically less than the perennial and full season crops they replaced.