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Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000

Table 9. Aquaculture water withdrawals, 2000.
[Figures may not sum to totals because of independent rounding. —, data not collected]

STATE WITHDRAWALS
(in million gallons per day)

WITHDRAWALS
(in thousand acre-feet per year)

By source

Total By source

Total
Ground
water
Surface
water
Ground
water
Surface
water


Alabama 8.931.44 10.4 10.0 1.61 11.6
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas 187 10.4 198 210 11.6 222
California 158 380 537 177 426 603
             
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware 0.07 0 0.07 0.08 0 0.08
District of Columbia
Florida 7.81 0.21 8.02 8.76 0.24 8.99
             
Georgia 7.70 7.72 15.4 8.63 8.65 17.3
Hawaii
Idaho 51.5 1,920 1,970 57.7 2,150 2,210
Illinois
Indiana
             
Iowa
Kansas 3.33 2.27 5.60 3.73 2.54 6.28
Kentucky
Louisiana 128 115 243 144 129 273
Maine
             
Maryland 4.81 14.8 19.6 5.39 16.6 22.0
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi 321 49.8 371 360 55.9 416
             
Missouri 2.01 81.3 83.3 2.25 91.2 93.4
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire 3.12 13.1 16.3 3.50 14.7 18.2
             
New Jersey 6.46 0 6.46 7.24 0 7.24
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina 7.88 0 7.88 8.83 0 8.83
North Dakota
             
Ohio 1.36 0 1.36 1.52 0 1.52
Oklahoma 0.29 16.1 16.4 0.33 18.1 18.4
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
             
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah 116 0 116 130 0 130
             
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin 39.8 30.4 70.2 44.6 34.1 78.7
             
Wyoming
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands


TOTAL 1,060 2,640 3,700 1,180 2,960 4,150

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