United States Geological Survey
Estimated Use of Water in the United States
The quinquennial national water use compilation, reporting withdrawals by source and by category — public supply, domestic, irrigation, livestock, aquaculture, industrial, mining and thermoelectric power — at state and county level.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- No
- Restrictions
- Applies to material authored by US federal agencies. Third-party material carried within a federal product may be separately protected.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- United States Geological Survey
- Geographic coverage
- United States — state and county
- Temporal coverage
- 1950 onwards
- Update frequency
- multi-year
- Formats
- csv, xlsx
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- withdrawal, consumption, sector use
Notes
USGS reports withdrawals rather than consumption for most categories, and the distinction is material: thermoelectric cooling withdraws enormous volumes but consumes a small fraction of them (spec §39).