“Flowing Toward 2050 – Utah’s Water Outlook,” Utah Foundation’s 2014 report, shows that statewide agricultural water makes up 82 percent of our state’s water, while 8 percent is CII, 6 percent residential outdoor and 4 percent residential indoor. Although this report and the Bonneville differ slightly in their percentage of water going to agricultural use, with 90 percent of Utahns living in urban areas by the 2010 Census count, there’s a definite imbalance in the use of our water. That said, many of us love the agriculture in our state and some polls have shown that Utahns value keeping it in the future.
In fact, Envision Utah’s “Your Utah, Your Future” 2015 survey’s agricultural results support that, although only 2 percent of Utahns participated in the survey.
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