Table 2. Total water withdrawals by County in Florida, 2015
Description
In 2015, the total amount of water withdrawn in Florida was estimated at 15,319 million gallons per day (Mgal/d). This includes 9,598 Mgal/d of saline water and 5,721 Mgal/d of fresh water. The counties of Hillsborough (1,867 Mgal/d), Pasco (1,852 Mgal/d), St Lucie (1,559 Mgal/d), Palm Beach (1,341 Mgal/d), and Citrus (1,288 Mgal/d) accounted for most of the total water withdrawn in 2015. Pasco County withdrew the largest amount of saline water (1,775 Mgal/d) and Palm Beach withdrew the largest amount of freshwater (820 Mgal/d) in 2015.
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/F7N29W5M |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5a4cfd0ae4b0d05ee8c4cae6.xml |
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- environment
- public-supply-water-use
- withdrawals
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- domestic
- public-supply
- domestic-water-use
- consumptive-use
- water-withdrawals