Industrial water use
Self-supplied industrial water withdrawals for 2020, estimated by county from a national USGS water-use model and summed here to state totals.
Publisher
- Organization
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Publisher’s dataset
- Industrial water use for 2020 by county, HUC12, month, and year for the conterminous United States
- File or API used
- https://doi.org/10.5066/P14WTLVD
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-usgs-industrial-water-use.py- Methodology
- https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/6891fd66d4be0267deb7449f
Coverage
- Geography
- Conterminous United States (counties, summed here to state and Idaho-county totals)
- Time coverage
- 2020
- Update frequency
- Irregular
- Published
- April 22, 2026
- Retrieved
- September 9, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. CC0-1.0 public domain dedication (U.S. federal government work).
- Rows
- 95 observations, 2020
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial water withdrawals | Self-supplied industrial water withdrawn by manufacturing facilities (NAICS 31-33) per year, converted from USGS's published million-gallons-per-day estimate. | acre feet |
| Industrial water withdrawals by source | Self-supplied industrial water withdrawn by manufacturing facilities (NAICS 31-33) per year, split into groundwater and surface-water sources. | acre feet |
Caveats
- Covers self-supplied withdrawals by manufacturing facilities (NAICS 31-33) only; excludes data centers, mining, thermoelectric power, and publicly-supplied water to manufacturing.
- Covers the conterminous United States only; Alaska and Hawaii have no county rows and no figure here.
- This is a new 2020 model series, not a continuation of USGS's 1985-2015 Water Use Circular industrial figures; the two are not comparable.
- No United States total is stored; USGS's metadata does not state that county rows sum to a published national figure.
- USGS publishes withdrawals in Mgal/d; values here are converted to acre-feet per year (1 Mgal/d = 1,120.14 acre-feet per year).
Pages built on this dataset
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Industrial water use for 2020 by county, HUC12, month, and year for the conterminous United States”, compiled from U.S. Geological Survey, Industrial water use for 2020 by county, HUC12, month, and year for the conterminous United States. Retrieved September 9, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/usgs-industrial-water-use/.
Cite U.S. Geological Survey directly for the figures themselves.
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