2005 WATER USE

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  • 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

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

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Water Use in Georgia, 2005
Surface-water Withdrawals

Total offstream water use from groundwater and surface-water sources was about 5,471 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) in 2005. An estimated 4,291 Mgal/d were withdrawn from surface-water sources (78 percent), and of that amount, 63 percent was for thermoelectric-power generation. The greatest offstream use (60 Mgal/d or greater) occurred in counties where thermoelectric-power plants are located. Surface water provided 78 percent of the 1,180 Mgal/d withdrawn for public supply.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.

Surface-water withdrawals by county

Surface-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 ()