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SECTIONFOUR<br />

<strong>Water</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> Forecasting<br />

as well. Year 2000 UWMPs did not have access to the ABAG 2002 report and were based on<br />

older ABAG or other projections.<br />

• <strong>Water</strong> Agency <strong>Water</strong> Master Plans (WMPs) – Some agencies provided a WMP for use in<br />

projections, if the WMP was more recent than the latest published UWMP. In some cases the<br />

demand projections were presented; however, the population and/or employment forecasts<br />

used were not always provided. In some cases the demand projections were based on land<br />

use forecasts.<br />

• Bay Area <strong>Water</strong> Users Association 2001–2002 Annual Survey (BAWUA 2002) -<br />

Population estimates for wholesale customer service areas are published in the BAWUA<br />

Annual Survey each year. Historical population estimates are provided as well as forecasted<br />

population estimates for each decade. The BAWUA 2001–2002 Annual Survey provides<br />

projections out to the year 2030 (BAWUA 2002). BAWUA estimates are provided by the<br />

wholesale customer to BAWUA and correspond directly with the wholesale customer service<br />

area boundaries. BAWUA does not perform any analysis to verify these projections.<br />

• Agency <strong>Demand</strong> or Forecast Studies - Some agencies provided demand or forecast studies<br />

with their own water demand or population projections based on their own evaluations,<br />

similar to WMPs. These studies were evaluated as an alternate projection source in the DSS<br />

Model.<br />

Development of Yearly <strong>Projections</strong> to the Year 2030<br />

Typically, only the BAWUA Annual Survey projected the population to the year 2030 as desired<br />

for this study (BAWUA 2002). In addition, none of the population projection sources provided<br />

yearly projections, although most provided projections in 5- or 10-year increments. Therefore,<br />

the following steps were taken to create yearly projections to 2030 for each of the sources, as<br />

necessary:<br />

• The population increase for each 5- or 10-year increment was divided evenly and applied<br />

yearly throughout the 5- or 10-year period to form a linear yearly population projection<br />

between increments<br />

• For ABAG, the population from 2025–2030 was estimated using the 2020–2025 population<br />

growth rate applied to the 2025 estimate and carried forward linearly at that rate to 2030<br />

Population Growth Rates<br />

Population growth rates were extrapolated from the yearly population projections to 2030 for<br />

each source, to utilize the population projections with the DSS 2001 base-year population for<br />

each wholesale customer’s service area.<br />

To reconcile the ABAG projections with the wholesale customer service areas, it was necessary<br />

to create service area blends of ABAG cities, summarized in Table 3-4. A yearly service area<br />

population growth rate for the years 2001–2030 was then created for each wholesale customer<br />

using the ABAG city’s yearly growth rates at those percentages.<br />

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