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Data and Knowledge Gaps of a Water Bottling Facility Inventory and Select Water-Use Dataset, United States

Scientific Investigations Report 2024-5106
Water Availability and Use Science Program
By: , , , and 
https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20245106

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Abstract

In 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey developed a national inventory of water bottling facilities for the United States, including information about locations, water sources, water use, and a collection of other attributes. The purpose of the inventory was to provide information about water bottling facilities needed to assess and improve understanding of local-, regional-, and national-scale hydrologic and socioeconomic effects resulting from water extraction for bottling. Beverage types coded in the North American Industry Classification System under subsector 312 (Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing) were compiled; however, facility information was often not publicly available, time intensive to search manually, and difficult to verify because there are no nationally available facility lists. A separate evaluation of facilities in the Great Lakes region identified some facilities that were missing and some with incorrect information. Ancillary facility attributes were primarily available from a proprietary business dataset and water-use data could only be acquired for a small subset of facilities. These limitations and deficiencies may affect the types of analyses that can be done using the inventory information. Therefore, the following data-quality aspects are used to describe the information compiled in the facility and water-use tables: completeness, uniqueness, validity, timeliness, accuracy, consistency, and accessibility. The resulting implications of the data and knowledge gaps are that users of the data may need to make additional evaluations of the inventory information for some analyses.

Suggested Citation

Luukkonen, C.L., Buchwald, C.A., Martin, G.R., and Johnson Mckee, A.E., 2024, Data and knowledge gaps of a water bottling facility inventory and select water-use dataset, United States: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2024–5106, 41 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20245106.

ISSN: 2328-0328 (online)

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Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Abstract
  • Introduction
  • Purpose and Scope
  • Analysis of Facility and Water-Use Information
  • Discussion of Data-Quality Aspects
  • Great Lakes Regional Assessment Inventory Case Study
  • Summary
  • References Cited
  • Glossary
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Data and knowledge gaps of a water bottling facility inventory and select water-use dataset, United States
Series title Scientific Investigations Report
Series number 2024-5106
DOI 10.3133/sir20245106
Year Published 2024
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location Reston, VA
Contributing office(s) Upper Midwest Water Science Center
Description Report: vi, 41 p.; 2 Data Releases
Country United States
Online Only (Y/N) Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N) N
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