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WATER DATA FOR THE NATION

National Water Information System (NWIS)

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Data by state Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Dist. of Columbia Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Northern Mariana Is. Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virgin Islands Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

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WATER SCIENCE SPECIALTIES

WATER SCIENCE BY STATE

USGS Water Science Centers are located in each state

Science by state Alabama Alaska American Samoa Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Dist. of Columbia Florida Georgia Guam Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Northern Mariana Is. Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Virgin Islands Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Estimated Use of Water in the United States
County-Level Data for 2005

These data files present water-use estimates by county for the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands which support the State-level water-use estimates published in USGS Circular 1344, Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005.

The current best estimates of county, State, and national water-use data 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 may have been revised from previous publications such as Circular 1344.

Publication data files for 1985 and 1990, for 1995, and for 2000 are also available for download.

Comprehensiveness of data collection

• All States provided estimates for public supply, domestic, irrigation, livestock, aquaculture, industrial, mining, and thermoelectric power water use. All States also provided estimates of public supply deliveries for domestic use .
• All States will have estimates of the total population served by public supply. States optionally may have estimated public supply population served by groundwater and surface water.
• All States will have estimates of total irrigation. States optionally may have estimated subtotals for crop irrigation and golf-course irrigation.
• No consumptive-use data were collected nationally for any of the categories for 2005.
• No commercial water-use data were collected nationally for 2005.
• No wastewater release data were collected nationally for 2005.
• No hydroelectric power instream use data were collected nationally for 2005.
• Public-supply deliveries for commercial, industrial, and thermoelectric power were not collected nationally for 2005.

Levels of data aggregation and release outlet

• State-level data for the categories listed were published for 2005 in USGS Circular 1344 .
• County-level data for the categories listed above are in the data files linked from this page.
• Water-use estimates were compiled by water-resources cataloging unit (HUC8) for the Great Lakes for 2005.
• No water-use estimates were compiled nationally by aquifer for 2005.

Data Files

Individual State data files are provided in Microsoft Excel 2003 format (.xls). (The use of trade names is for identification purposes only and does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey.) Microsoft has a free viewer program for Microsoft Excel files for those who do not own a copy of Microsoft Excel. The file of all county-level data for the United States is provided in MS Excel format and as a tab-delimited ASCII file.

Data dictionary information is provided in Excel comment fields attached to each column heading and to cells containing FIPS codes. A separate data dictionary also is available. An index of county FIPS codes is available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

State	County data file (MS Excel)	State	County data file (MS Excel)
Alabama	1.1 MB	Nebraska	1.2 MB
Alaska	1.0 MB	Nevada	1.0 MB
Arizona	1.0 MB	New Hampshire	1.0 MB
Arkansas	1.1 MB	New Jersey	1.0 MB
California	1.2 MB	New Mexico	1.1 MB
Colorado	1.2 MB	New York	1.1 MB
Connecticut	1.1 MB	North Carolina	1.3 MB
Delaware	1.0 MB	North Dakota	1.2 MB
District of Columbia	1.0 MB	Ohio	1.5 MB
Florida	1.2 MB	Oklahoma	1.5 MB
Georgia	1.4 MB	Oregon	1.3 MB
Hawaii	1.1 MB	Pennsylvania	1.4 MB
Idaho	1.2 MB	Rhode Island	1.2 MB
Illinois	1.3 MB	South Carolina	1.4 MB
Indiana	1.2 MB	South Dakota	1.4 MB
Iowa	1.2 MB	Tennessee	1.5 MB
Kansas	1.2 MB	Texas	1.9 MB
Kentucky	1.3 MB	Utah	1.3 MB
Louisiana	1.2 MB	Vermont	1.2 MB
Maine	1.1 MB	Virginia	1.6 MB
Maryland	1.1 MB	Washington	1.3 MB
Massachusetts	1.1 MB	West Virginia	1.3 MB
Michigan	1.2 MB	Wisconsin	1.4 MB
Minnesota	1.2 MB	Wyoming	1.2 MB
Mississippi	1.2 MB	Puerto Rico	1.4 MB
Missouri	1.2 MB	U.S. Virgin Islands	1.2 MB
Montana	1.1 MB
United States, county level Excel format (6.3 MB) | Tab-delimited ASCII format (1.6 MB)
United States, State level Formatted tables, Excel .xlsx format

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