Water Use for Schuyler County

The U.S. Geological Survey compiles National water-use estimates every five years. The most recent compilation was for year 2000. The data includes water withdrawn from surface- and ground-water sources and used for various categories of water use. Fresh (non-saline) water-use estimates for Schuyler County are presented below. Data are reported in million of gallons per day (Mgal/d).

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• Total water use
• Water use by category: Totals | Surface water | Ground water

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Total fresh-water use and source of water, Schuyler County, 2005

Source	Water use, in millions gallons per day	Percent of total use
Surface Water	1.08	34.39%
Ground Water	2.06	65.61%
Total	3.14	100.00%

	Ground Water
	2.06

	Surface Water
	1.08

Total fresh-water use by category of use for Schuyler County, 2005

	Public Supply
Water use, in Mgal/day	0.74

	Domestic
Water use, in Mgal/day	0.95

	Industrial
Water use, in Mgal/day	0.78

	Thermoelectric
Water use, in Mgal/day	0.07

	Mining
Water use, in Mgal/day	0.22

	Aquaculture
Water use, in Mgal/day	0.38

Water use by category of use for Schuyler County, 2005

	Public Supply	Commercial	Domestic	Industrial	Thermo- electric	Mining	Live- stock	Aqua- culture	Irrigation	Total
Surface Water	0.32	0	0	0.34	0.05	0.08	0	0.29	0	1.08
Ground Water	0.42	0	0.95	0.44	0.02	0.14	0	0.09	0	2.06
Total	0.74	0	0.95	0.78	0.07	0.22	0	0.38	0	3.14