Record Details
Field | Value |
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Title | Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 1995 |
Creator | Solley, Wayne B.; Pierce, Robert R.; Perlman, Howard A. |
Subject | Water use; Water levels; Water consumption;water |
Coverage | United States; |
Description | Estimates indicate that after continual increases in the Nation’s total water withdrawals for the years reported from 1950 to 1980, withdrawals declined from 1980 to 1995. The withdrawal of fresh- and saline water in the United States during 1995 is estimated to have been 402,000 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) for all offstream uses—2 percent less than the 1990 estimate. The 1995 withdrawal estimate is nearly 10 percent less than the 1980 estimate, which is the peak year of water use... |
Publisher | U. S. Geological Survey |
Date | 1998 |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | Solley, Wayne B., Pierce, Robert R.and Perlman, Howard A., 1998, Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 1995, Denver, CO: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1200, 79 p. |
Language | eng |
Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/276 |