Table 2. Estimated public-supply water withdrawals by water source and PRASA water service area in Puerto Rico, 2016
Description
In 2016, the total amount of public-supply water withdrawn in Puerto Rico was estimated at 551 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) from fresh water sources. Surface water accounted for 492 Mgal/d (89 percent) and groundwater accounted for 59 Mgal/d (11 percent). Population served by public-supply water systems accounted for 3.4 million people, almost 100 percent of the total population. Total domestic water use was estimated at 396 Mgal/d and it is represented as the summation of deliveries from public-supply water systems to domestic users and self-supplied domestic withdrawals. The average per capita domestic water use, which represents the daily water use for the population that is supplied by public-supply water system and by domestic self-supplied withdrawals, was estimated at 116 Mgal/d. Public-supply water withdrawals and domestic use were tabulated by municipalities and by water service areas.
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HWON2W |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5bb6518be4b0fc368e89397d.xml |
Tags
- environment
- withdrawals
- water-use
- public-supply
- usgs-5bb6518be4b0fc368e89397d
- domestic-water-use
- water-withdrawals