Water Use Fact Sheet
Our Water Use Fact Sheet offers basic water use facts. This area is designed to give you a quick overview of our website focus.
Water Use refers to "(1) In a restrictive sense, the term refers to water that is withdrawn for a specific purpose, such as for public supply, domestic use, irrigation, thermoelectric-power cooling, or industrial processing. In previous water-use Circulars, water use for the domestic, commercial, industrial, and thermoelectric categories included both self-supplied withdrawals and deliveries from public supply. (2) More broadly, water use pertains to the interaction of humans with and influence on the hydrologic cycle, and includes elements such as water withdrawal, delivery, consumptive use, wastewater release, reclaimed wastewater, return flow, and instream use.See also offstream use and instream use."
This fact sheet was last updated Wed Jan 25 1:14:07 PST 2006.
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