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USGS Water Services

March 4, 2019

The USGS Water Services site serves USGS water data (streamflow, groundwater, water quality, site information, and statistics) via automated means using web services and extensible markup language (XML), as well as other popular media types. Services are invoked with the REST protocol. These services designed for high fault tolerance and very high availability.

Screenshot of USGS Water Services landing page.
The USGS Water Services site provides water data via high-availability web services.