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5-year Relative Fractional Vegetation Cover at Abandoned Energy Development Sites on the Colorado Plateau
Multichannel minisparker seismic-reflection data of field activity 2015-617-FA; Monterey Bay, offshore central California from 2015-02-23 to 2015-03-06
Topobathymetric Model for the Southern Coast of California and the Channel Islands, 1930 to 2014
Occurrence records and vegetation type data used for species distribution models in the western United States
Laboratory study on the effects of rearing temperature on American glass eels, Anguila rostrata (2011)
Macrobenthic infaunal communities associated with deep-sea hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico, 2009-2010
Sidescan sonar, single beam bathymetry, and navigation collected offshore of Sandwich Beach in 2016, U.S. Geological Field Activity 2016-030-FA
Estimated effect of best management practice implementation in the Chesapeake Bay watershed from 1985 to 2014
Implementation of conservation tillage and cover crops in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 1985 to 2012
An exploratory Bayesian network for estimating the magnitudes and uncertainties of selected water-quality parameters at streamgage 03374100 White River at Hazleton, Indiana, from partially observed data
Water use in the U.S., 2015
How do we use water in the U.S.?
We all depend on water every day, ranging from the water from our faucets, to the food we eat, to much of the electricity we use. The U.S. and its territories used nearly 322 billion gallons of water per day in 2015. This would cover the continental U.S. in about two inches of water over the course of a year. The national breakdown of water withdrawals looks like this:
USGS Water Use Data for the Nation
National water-use data are reported by source (surface water or groundwater, fresh and saline, and total), and category for the United States as a whole. The water-use data presented here are the current best estimates, and may have been revised from previous publications.