Water Use in Utah, 2000
The future health and welfare of the Nation's population is dependent upon a continuing supply of uncontaminated fresh water. Increasing withdrawals and increasing demands for instream flows are limiting the water available for future use. More comprehensive water-use data and analysis of water-use information are needed to quantify the stress on existing supplies and to better model and evaluate possible water-supply management options to supplement traditional water-supply approaches.
The USGS compiles water-use data from numerous sources for all parts of the county, and since 1950 has published a series of Circulars on the estimated use of water in the United States at 5-year intervals. These Circulars contain State-level estimates of the amount of public- and self-supplied water used for commercial, domestic, industrial, irrigation, livestock, mining, power generation, and other purposes. The water-use data collected and compiled in Utah are an integral part of the nationwide assessment of water supply and demand.
 Other water-use data: Surface water | Ground water
Freshwater Use in Utah, 2000
Water use in Utah, 2000
(Water-use values are in million gallons per day (Mgal/d)
Population is in thousands)
| County | Population | Ground-water use | Surface-water use | Total |
|---|
| Beaver | 6.01 | 55.29 | 72.25 | 127.55 |
| Box Elder | 42.75 | 70.78 | 382.75 | 453.53 |
| Cache | 91.39 | 51.39 | 252.04 | 303.43 |
| Carbon | 20.42 | 4.01 | 41.75 | 45.76 |
| Daggett | 0.92 | 0.38 | 22.80 | 23.18 |
| Davis | 238.99 | 35.47 | 102.01 | 137.48 |
| Duchesne | 14.37 | 3.99 | 219.48 | 223.47 |
| Emery | 10.86 | 2.03 | 188.20 | 190.23 |
| Garfield | 4.74 | 4.38 | 69.72 | 74.11 |
| Grand | 8.49 | 3.73 | 10.92 | 14.65 |
| Iron | 33.78 | 134.72 | 76.72 | 211.44 |
| Juab | 8.24 | 31.31 | 55.51 | 86.81 |
| Kane | 6.05 | 3.41 | 11.67 | 15.08 |
| Millard | 12.41 | 94.13 | 314.31 | 408.44 |
| Morgan | 7.13 | 1.73 | 38.99 | 40.72 |
| Piute | 1.44 | 6.04 | 72.12 | 78.16 |
| Rich | 1.96 | 2.60 | 221.18 | 223.78 |
| Salt Lake | 898.39 | 96.76 | 236.97 | 333.73 |
| San Juan | 14.41 | 2.54 | 20.68 | 23.22 |
| Sanpete | 22.76 | 14.46 | 138.45 | 152.91 |
| Sevier | 18.84 | 24.39 | 164.33 | 188.72 |
| Summit | 29.74 | 13.45 | 90.89 | 104.34 |
| Tooele | 40.74 | 31.43 | 45.81 | 77.24 |
| Uintah | 25.22 | 49.13 | 195.20 | 244.33 |
| Utah | 368.54 | 164.47 | 374.24 | 538.71 |
| Wasatch | 15.22 | 7.23 | 45.51 | 52.74 |
| Washington | 90.35 | 28.99 | 65.30 | 94.29 |
| Wayne | 2.51 | 35.91 | 41.96 | 77.87 |
| Weber | 196.53 | 38.29 | 179.55 | 217.84 |
| Total | 2,233.20 | 1,012.44 | 3,751.31 | 4,763.75 |
Water Use by Category of Use, 2000
Total freshwater use in Utah, 2000
Water-use values are in million gallons per day (Mgal/d)
| County | Public Supply | Industrial | Thermoelectric | Mining | Aquaculture | Irrigation | Livestock | Total |
|---|
| Beaver | 2.17 | 1.82 | 0.16 | 0.01 | 1.94 | 120.02 | 1.43 | 127.55 |
| Box Elder | 22.81 | 1.37 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 6.85 | 420.79 | 1.71 | 453.53 |
| Cache | 33.81 | 1.21 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 7.23 | 259.28 | 1.90 | 303.43 |
| Carbon | 6.09 | 0.03 | 3.47 | 0.23 | 0.00 | 35.79 | 0.15 | 45.76 |
| Daggett | 0.52 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 22.60 | 0.06 | 23.18 |
| Davis | 43.86 | 1.45 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.00 | 91.70 | 0.18 | 137.48 |
| Duchesne | 4.13 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.61 | 0.00 | 217.81 | 0.89 | 223.47 |
| Emery | 2.38 | 0.00 | 25.05 | 0.86 | 0.00 | 161.54 | 0.40 | 190.23 |
| Garfield | 1.56 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 1.89 | 70.35 | 0.30 | 74.11 |
| Grand | 3.28 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.99 | 0.00 | 10.32 | 0.06 | 14.65 |
| Iron | 9.37 | 1.56 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 200.04 | 0.47 | 211.44 |
| Juab | 5.67 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.10 | 0.00 | 79.79 | 0.25 | 86.81 |
| Kane | 2.40 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.10 | 12.45 | 0.13 | 15.08 |
| Millard | 4.72 | 0.00 | 21.06 | 0.91 | 0.00 | 380.55 | 1.20 | 408.44 |
| Morgan | 1.41 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 39.01 | 0.23 | 40.72 |
| Piute | 0.94 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.27 | 73.74 | 0.21 | 78.16 |
| Rich | 1.32 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 221.81 | 0.65 | 223.78 |
| Salt Lake | 258.39 | 11.44 | 2.84 | 0.92 | 0.17 | 59.78 | 0.19 | 333.73 |
| San Juan | 2.53 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.63 | 0.00 | 19.62 | 0.29 | 23.22 |
| Sanpete | 3.97 | 0.47 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.03 | 143.36 | 1.08 | 152.91 |
| Sevier | 5.64 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.09 | 11.19 | 171.04 | 0.76 | 188.72 |
| Summit | 10.31 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.53 | 90.96 | 0.52 | 104.34 |
| Tooele | 7.74 | 1.21 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 67.94 | 0.33 | 77.24 |
| Uintah | 8.40 | 0.00 | 9.64 | 3.97 | 27.19 | 194.37 | 0.76 | 244.33 |
| Utah | 103.40 | 21.92 | 0.00 | 0.31 | 12.56 | 399.22 | 1.30 | 538.71 |
| Wasatch | 2.91 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.39 | 46.23 | 0.21 | 52.74 |
| Washington | 35.34 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 58.59 | 0.22 | 94.29 |
| Wayne | 0.56 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 32.15 | 44.82 | 0.34 | 77.87 |
| Weber | 52.19 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 15.11 | 1.62 | 148.28 | 0.64 | 217.84 |
| Total | 637.82 | 42.68 | 62.22 | 26.27 | 116.11 | 3,861.80 | 16.85 | 4,763.75 |
Information Resources
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U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
