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Comparisons: waffle - 2015 daily water use

Detailed Description

In 2015, water use in the U.S. totaled 322 billion gallons/day. Total water use is broken out into 8 categories using different colors. The categories, in ranked order for 2015, followed by their water use, in units of billion gallons/day, are: thermoelectric power (133), Irrigation (118), public supply (39), self-supplied industrial (14.8), aquaculture (7.6), mining (4), self-supplied domestic (3.3) & livestock (2)

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