USGS Water Data for the Nation

Description

The U.S. Geological Survey maintains national data bases of water-use information. The data are collected and compiled every five years for each State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. County, state, and national water-use estimates may be downloaded from the National Water Information System Web (NWISWeb) interface, Water Data for the Nation, by selecting the Water Use button or data category pull-down. Data on NWISWeb represent the current best estimates, and may have been revised from previous publications. Data available from the USGS County Water-Use generally reflect the published report, and may have been revised in subsequent analyses. Note: State-level data from 1950-1980 and watershed data are not available on NWISWeb, but they can be downloaded USGS County Water-Use Data link.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Documents U.S. county-level consumptive water use by category: public supply, self-supplied domestic, livestock, irrigation, thermoelectric power, self-supplied industrial, mining, commercial, and aquaculture. Updated every 5 years. https://water.usgs.gov/watuse/data/
21 These pages provide access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.9 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Online access to this data is organized by category: surface water, groundwater, water quality, and water use. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis

Tags

  • desalination
  • water-treatment
  • surface-water
  • aquaculture
  • mining
  • irrigation
  • water-quality
  • industrial
  • livestock
  • thermoelectric-power
  • nawi
  • water-use
  • water
  • domestic
  • public-supply
  • ground-water
  • consumptive-use
  • energy

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