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.