Water Withdrawals and Consumptive Use -- States and Other Areas statistics


		1985			1990			1995				1995				1995

	FIPS										Water withdrawn
	CODE
State			Per			Per			Per	Source			Selected Major Uses
or			capita			capita			capita							Consump-
other area			(gal.			(gal.			(gal.							tive
			per			per			per	Ground	Surface	Irrigation	Public	Indus-	Thermo-	use,/4
		Total /1	day)		Total /1	day)		Total /1	day)	water	water		supply /2	trial/3	electric	fresh
			fresh			fresh			fresh							water

United States	00000	399,000	1,400		407,900	1,340		401,500	1,280	77,500	324,000	134,000	43,600	26,200	190,000	100,000

Alabama	01000	8,600	2,140		8,090	2,000		7,100	1,670	445	6,650	139	875	753	5,200	532
Alaska	02000	406	727		641	517		329	350	132	196	0.6	90	197	30	25
Arizona	04000	6,430	1,960		6,570	1,790		6,830	1,620	2,840	3,990	5,670	846	197	62	3,830
Arkansas	05000	5,910	2,500		7,840	3,330		8,800	3,540	5,460	3,340	5,940	419	187	1,780	4,140
California	06000	49,700	1,420		46,800	1,180		45,900	1,130	14,700	31,300	28,900	5,740	802	9,630	25,500
Colorado	08000	13,600	4,190		12,700	3,850		13,800	3,690	2,270	11,600	12,700	732	191	115	5,230
Connecticut	09000	3,780	375		4,840	325		4,450	389	166	4,290	28	448	11	3,940	97
Delaware	10000	1,650	222		1,370	1,540		1,500	1,050	110	1,390	48	101	64	1,270	71
District of Columbia	11000	348	556		9	15		10	18	0.5	9.7	0	0	0.5	9.7	15
Florida	12000	17,000	554		17,900	582		18,200	509	4,340	13,800	3,470	2,360	649	11,600	2,780
Georgia	13000	5,450	899		5,350	816		5,820	799	1,190	4,630	722	1,250	676	3,070	1,170
Hawaii	15000	2,150	1,100		2,740	1,070		1,930	853	531	1,400	652	218	20	970	542
Idaho	16000	22,300	22,200		19,700	19,600		15,100	13,000	2,830	12,300	13,000	254	76	0	4,360
Illinois	17000	14,500	1,250		18,000	1,570		19,900	1,680	953	19,000	180	1,950	527	17,100	857
Indiana	18000	8,030	1,470		9,430	1,700		9,140	1,570	709	8,430	116	784	2,410	5,690	505
Iowa	19000	2,770	960		2,860	1,030		3,030	1,070	528	2,510	39	418	301	2,130	290
Kansas	20000	5,670	2,310		6,080	2,460		5,240	2,040	3,510	1,720	3,380	384	77	1,260	3,620
Kentucky	21000	4,200	1,130		4,320	1,170		4,420	1,150	226	4,190	12	521	375	3,450	318
Louisiana	22000	10,400	2,210		9,350	2,200		9,850	2,270	1,350	8,500	769	677	2,580	5,480	1,930
Maine	23000	1,520	733		1,140	433		326	178	80	246	27	135	16	136	48
Maryland	24000	6,710	321		6,420	307		7,730	289	246	7,480	57	907	331	6,360	150
Massachusetts	25000	9,660	1,070		5,520	338		5,510	189	351	5,160	82	759	88	4,570	180
Michigan	26000	11,400	1,270		11,600	1,250		12,100	1,260	862	11,200	227	1,490	1,910	8,370	667
Minnesota	27000	2,830	676		3,270	748		3,390	736	714	2,680	157	573	438	2,090	417
Mississippi	28000	2,510	885		3,640	1,290		3,200	1,140	2,590	614	1,740	377	294	375	1,570
Missouri	29000	6,110	1,210		6,930	1,150		7,030	1,320	891	6,140	567	757	63	5,550	692
Montana	30000	8,650	10,500		9,320	11,600		8,860	10,200	217	8,640	8,550	161	80	22	1,960
Nebraska	31000	10,000	6,250		8,940	5,660		10,500	6,440	6,200	4,350	7,550	328	175	2,350	7,020
Nevada	32000	3,740	3,860		3,350	2,780		2,300	1,480	896	1,400	1,640	479	95	27	1,340
New Hampshire	33000	894	688		1,310	378		1,320	388	81	1,240	6.3	130	50	1,110	35
New Jersey	34000	6,940	307		12,800	287		6,110	269	580	5,530	125	1,120	486	4,360	210
New Mexico	35000	3,280	2,320		3,480	2,300		3,510	2,080	1,700	1,800	2,990	337	69	55	1,980
New York	36000	15,200	508		19,000	583		16,800	567	1,010	15,800	30	3,140	321	13,100	469
North Carolina	37000	8,760	1,260		8,940	1,350		9,290	1,070	535	8,750	239	939	385	7,420	713
North Dakota	38000	1,160	1,690		2,680	4,190		1,120	1,750	122	1,000	117	85	17	819	181
Ohio	39000	12,700	1,180		11,700	1,080		10,500	944	905	9,620	27	1,560	650	8,190	791
Oklahoma	40000	1,270	386		1,670	452		2,040	543	1,220	822	864	597	285	124	716
Oregon	41000	6,540	2,450		8,430	2,970		7,910	2,520	1,050	6,860	6,170	572	379	9.0	3,210
Pennsylvania	42000	14,300	1,210		9,830	827		9,680	802	860	8,820	16	1,730	1,930	5,930	565
Rhode Island	44000	409	152		526	132		411	138	27	383	2.3	121	7.3	275	19
South Carolina	45000	6,820	2,040		6,000	1,720		6,200	1,690	322	5,880	53	614	703	4,810	321
South Dakota	46000	675	956		592	851		460	631	187	273	269	97	32	5.3	249
Tennessee	47000	8,450	1,770		9,190	1,880		10,100	1,920	435	9,640	24	831	868	8,300	233
Texas	48000	25,300	1,230		25,200	1,180		29,600	1,300	8,780	20,800	9,450	3,420	2,920	13,500	10,500
Utah	49000	4,320	2,540		4,480	2,540		4,460	2,200	790	3,670	3,530	506	253	48	2,200
Vermont	50000	126	235		632	1,120		565	967	50	515	3.9	66	12	452	24
Virginia	51000	7,250	853		6,860	762		8,260	826	358	7,900	30	911	622	6,620	218
Washington	53000	7,030	1,600		7,940	1,630		8,860	1,620	1,760	7,100	6,470	1,300	652	376	3,080
West Virginia	54000	5,440	2,810		4,580	2,560		4,620	2,530	146	4,470	0	217	1,330	3,010	352
Wisconsin	55000	6,740	1,400		6,510	1,330		7,250	1,420	759	6,490	169	692	453	5,820	443
Wyoming	56000	6,220	12,200		7,600	16,700		7,060	14,700	335	6,720	6,590	100	118	220	2,800

Puerto Rico	(X)	2,600	176		3,040	163		2,840	154	135	2,680	107	443	15	2,260	187
Virgin Islands	(X)	124	68		164	91		202	113	0.7	201	0	7.8	20	173	1.9

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¹ Includes self-supplied withdrawals for commercial use (1.2 mil. and
2.4 mil. gallons per day) and livestock (4.4 mil. and 4.5 mil. gallons per day) that are not shown separately
not shown separately under "major uses" in 1985 and 1990m, respectively.
² Includes domestic withdrawals for normal household purposes.
³ Includes water used in mining.
⁴ Water that has been evaporated, transpired, or incorporated into
products, plant or animal tissue; and therefore, is not available for
immediate reuse.
⁵ Includes Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands.

Source: U.S. Geological Survey,
Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 1985, 1990, and 1995,
circulars 1004, 1081, and 1200.

http://h2o.usgs.gov/public/watuse/index.html

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Estimated Use of Water in the United States

Glossary of water-use terminology

Water-use terminology is continuing to expand in this series of water-use circulars prepared at 5-year intervals. The
term "water use" as initially used in 1950 in the U.S. Geological Survey's water-use circulars meant withdrawals of
water; in the report for 1960, the term was redefined to include consumptive use of water as well as withdrawals.
With the beginning of the Survey's National Water-Use Information Program in 1978 the term was again redefined
to include return flow and offstream and instream uses. In the report for 1985, the term was redefined to include
withdrawals plus deliveries.

STANDARD WATER-USE TERMS


institutions. The water may be obtained from a public supply or may be self supplied. See also public supply and
self- supplied water.


crops, consumed by humans or livestock, or otherwise removed from the immediate water environment. Also
referred to as water consumed.


Generally, the water is not available for further use; however, leakage from an irrigation ditch, for example, may
percolate to a ground-water source and be available for further use.


and dishes, flushing toilets, and watering lawns and gardens. Also called residential water use. The water may be
obtained from a public supply or may be self supplied. See also public supply and self-supplied water.


transpiration.


from the soil and surface-water bodies and as a result of plant transpiration. See also evaporation and transpiration.


than 500 mg/L of dissolved solids is undesirable for drinking and many industrial uses.


subsurface water in the saturated zone (a zone in which all voids are filled with water) where the water is under
pressure greater than atmospheric.


generators are driven by falling water. Hydroelectric water use is classified as an instream use in this report.


and includes such industries as steel, chemical and allied products, paper and allied products, mining, and petroleum
refining. The water may be obtained from a public supply or may be self supplied. See also public supply and self-
supplied water.


maintain vegetative growth in recreational lands such as parks and golf courses.


needs. Livestock as used here includes cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, and poultry. Also included are animal specialties.
See also rural water use and animal specialties water use.




ores; liquids, such as crude petroleum; and gases, such as natural gas. Also includes uses associated with quarrying,
well operations (dewatering), milling (crushing, screening, washing, floatation, and so forth), and other preparations
customarily done at the mine site or as part of a mining activity. Does not include water used in processing, such as
smelting, refining petroleum, or slurry pipeline operations. These uses are included in industrial water use.


industry, irrigation, livestock, thermoelectric power generation, and other uses. Sometimes called off-channel use or
withdrawal.




provide water for a variety of uses, such as domestic, commercial, thermoelectric power, industrial, and public
water use. See also commercial water use, domestic water use, thermoelectric power water use, industrial water
use, and public water use.




washing, and municipal parks and swimming pools. See also public supply.


reaches a natural waterway or aquifer.






domestic and livestock needs. The water generally is self supplied, and includes domestic use, drinking water for
livestock, and other uses, such as dairy sanitation, evaporation from stock-watering ponds, and cleaning and waste
disposal. See also domestic water use, livestock water use, and self-supplied water.




obtained from a public supply.




water may be obtained from a public supply or may be self supplied. See also public supply and self-supplied
water.


the atmosphere from the plant surface. See also evaporation and evapotranspiration.




undesirable constituents.


for domestic use, irrigation, or industrial processing. In this report, the quantity of water use for a specific category
is the combination of self-supplied withdrawals and public-supply deliveries. 2) More broadly, water use pertains to
human's interaction with and influence on the hydrologic cycle, and includes elements such as water withdrawal,
delivery, consumptive use, wastewater release, reclaimed wastewater, return flow, and instream use. See also
offstream use and instream use.

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These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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388. Water Withdrawals and Consumptive Use -- States and Other Areas