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Show support the independently projected increase in household income, or vice versa; i. e., the independently projected income and consumption increases could be too optimistic. If the independently projected increase in household income were held to be both accurate and desirable ( a target, so to speak), it would be possible to experiment with the magnitude of increased exports in a sector or a group of sectors needed to realize the target income. Some of this has been done for another project, and a more complete analysis is expected to be forthcoming in the near future. The projection of the increase in water intake demand is one of the major objectives of this paper. It, therefore, seems sufficient to observe that the exogenously determined household income given in Table 8 may be realized with a relatively small increase in water demand, if Final Demand were to increase in those sectors which are at most weakly linked to the Crops sector. Increased Final Demand in the sectors such as Food Manufacturing and Livestock, where a strong linkage to Crops exists, would result in a significant increase in water demand. Any reasonable projection of a final demand mix designed to support the household income target ($ 1,470,640,000) would probably produce a modification of no more than 10 per cent in the projected increase in water intake given in Table 8. In any case, it should be noted that the pattern of the projections, on a sector- by- sector basis as given in Table 7, is similar to that given in Table 6. Column 4 in Table 7 gives the percentage comparison between the additional water intake projections of Table 6 and Table 7. These range from a low of 89 per cent to a high of 100 per cent. 47 |
