2005 WATER USE

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• Summaries
  • State totals
  • Groundwater
  • Surface water
  • Category of use
  • Historical trends
  • Consumptive use

• Water use by category
  • Public supply
  • Domestic
  • Commercial
  • Irrigation
  • Livestock
  • Aquaculture
  • Industrial
  • Thermoelectric power
  • Mining

• Data tables
  • County data:
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    • Totals, by category
    • Surface water
    • Groundwater

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  • Georgia water use, 2005 (Excel)

• Publications
  • Water Use in Georgia by County for 2005; and Water-Use Trends, 1980–2005

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Water Use in Georgia, 2005

Water use for 2005 for each county in Georgia was estimated using data obtained from various Federal and State agencies and local sources. Total consumptive water use also was estimated for each county in Georgia for 2005. Estimates of offstream water use include the categories of public supply, domestic, commercial, industrial, mining, irrigation, livestock, and thermoelectric power. The only category of instream use estimated was hydroelectric-power generation.

Total offstream water use from ground- and surface-water sources was about 5,471 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) in 2005. Surface water used in the process of thermoelectric-power generation was the largest volume of water withdrawn with withdrawals of 2,717 Mgal/d in 2005. Estimated instream water use for hydroelectric-power generation was 54,096 Mgal/d. Withdrawals for irrigation totaled 752 Mgal/d with 65 percent supplied by ground-water sources. Surface water provided 78 percent of the 1,180 Mgal/d withdrawn for public supply. Many counties in the northern Piedmont physiographic province of Georgia, an area of dense population, had a large percentage of withdrawals from surface-water sources. In contrast, in the southern Coastal Plain physiographic province part of the State, many counties had more withdrawals from ground-water sources.

Water use by county

Water withdrawals, by category of use

Information Resources

• Water Use in the United States ()
• Glossary of Water-Use Terms ()
• National Handbook on Water Data Acquistion ()