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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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