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Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2000
Table 8. Livestock 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| California | 182 | 227 | 409 | 204 | 255 | 458 |
| Colorado | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Connecticut | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Delaware | 3.70 | 0.22 | 3.92 | 4.15 | 0.25 | 4.39 |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Florida | 31.0 | 1.51 | 32.5 | 34.7 | 1.69 | 36.4 |
| Georgia | 1.66 | 17.7 | 19.4 | 1.86 | 19.9 | 21.7 |
| Hawaii | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Idaho | 27.7 | 7.20 | 34.9 | 31.0 | 8.07 | 39.1 |
| Illinois | 37.6 | 0 | 37.6 | 42.1 | 0 | 42.1 |
| Indiana | 27.3 | 14.6 | 41.9 | 30.6 | 16.4 | 47.0 |
| Iowa | 81.8 | 27.1 | 109 | 91.8 | 30.4 | 122 |
| Kansas | 87.2 | 23.5 | 111 | 97.7 | 26.3 | 124 |
| Kentucky | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Louisiana | 4.03 | 3.31 | 7.34 | 4.52 | 3.71 | 8.23 |
| Maine | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Maryland | 7.18 | 3.18 | 10.4 | 8.05 | 3.56 | 11.6 |
| Massachusetts | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Michigan | 10.2 | 1.15 | 11.3 | 11.4 | 1.29 | 12.7 |
| Minnesota | 52.8 | 0 | 52.8 | 59.2 | 0 | 59.2 |
| Mississippi | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Missouri | 18.3 | 54.1 | 72.4 | 20.5 | 60.6 | 81.1 |
| Montana | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Nebraska | 76.0 | 17.4 | 93.4 | 85.2 | 19.5 | 105 |
| Nevada | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| New Hampshire | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| New Jersey | 1.68 | 0 | 1.68 | 1.88 | 0 | 1.88 |
| New Mexico | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| New York | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| North Carolina | 89.1 | 32.3 | 121 | 99.9 | 36.2 | 136 |
| North Dakota | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ohio | 8.20 | 17.1 | 25.3 | 9.19 | 19.2 | 28.4 |
| Oklahoma | 53.6 | 97.2 | 151 | 60.0 | 109 | 169 |
| Oregon | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pennsylvania | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Rhode Island | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| South Carolina | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| South Dakota | 16.9 | 25.2 | 42.0 | 18.9 | 28.2 | 47.1 |
| Tennessee | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Texas | 137 | 172 | 308 | 153 | 192 | 346 |
| Utah | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vermont | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Virginia | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Washington | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| West Virginia | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Wisconsin | 60.3 | 6.02 | 66.3 | 67.6 | 6.75 | 74.4 |
| Wyoming | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerto Rico | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| TOTAL | 1,010 | 747 | 1,760 | 1,140 | 838 | 1,980 |
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