Agriculture Water Demand Model - Report for the Kettle Watershed (October 2013)

The Agriculture Water Demand Model was developed to provide current and future agricultural water demands. The Model calculates water use on a property-by-property basis, and sums each property to obtain a total water demand for the entire basin or each sub-basin. Crop, irrigation system type, soil texture and climate data are used to calculate the water demand. Climate data from 2003 was used to present information on one of the hottest and driest years on record and 1997 data was used to represent a wet year. Lands within the Agriculture Land Reserve (ALR), depicted in green in Figure 1 were included in the project.

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