Water use in the United States, 1980

Solley, Wayne B.; Barber, Nancy L.; Merk, Charles F.

doi:10.3133/7000105

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“…Water‐use data for the U.S. were available from a variety of sources (MacKichan, ; Picton, ; MacKichan, ; Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources, , ; Wollman, ; MacKichan and Kammerer, ; Murray, ; Water Resources Council, , ; Wollman and Bonem, ; Murray and Reeves, ; National Water Commission, ; Murray and Reeves, ; Viessman and DeMoncoda, ; Solley et al ., , , , , ; Guldin, ; Brown, [technical assessment]; Brown, [peer‐reviewed paper]; Hutson et al ., ; Roy et al ., , ; Dziegielewski and Kiefer, ; Kenny et al ., ; Brown et al ., ). We reviewed these sources, identifying water type (fresh or saline), water use (withdrawal or consumptive), spatial scope (contiguous, continental, or territorial U.S.), study type (projections or estimates), and temporal scope.…”

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A Review of the United States' Past and Projected Water Use

Perrone

Hornberger

Vliet

et al. 2015

J American Water Resour Assoc

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Good information and data on water demands are needed to perform good analyses, yet collecting and compiling spatially and temporally consistent water demand data are challenges. The objective of our work was to understand the limitations associated with water-use estimates and projections. We performed a comprehensive literature review of national and regional United States (U.S.) water-use estimates and projections. We explored trends in past regional projections of freshwater withdrawals and compared these values to regional estimates of freshwater withdrawals made by the U.S. Geological Survey. Our results suggest a suite of limitations exist that have the potential for influencing analyses aiming to extract explanatory variables from the data or using the data to make projections and forecasts. As we explored regional projections, we paid special attention to the two largest water demand-side sectors -thermoelectric energy and irrigation -and found thermoelectric projections are more spread out than irrigation projections. All data related to water use have limitations, and there is no alternative to making the best use that we can of the available data; our article provides a comprehensive review of these limitations so that water managers can be more informed.(KEY TERMS: water resources management: planning; water use; water allocation; water-use projections; water-use trends.) Perrone, Debra, George Hornberger, Oscar van Vliet, and Marijn van der Velde, 2015. A Review of the United States' Past and Projected Water Use.

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