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Total freshwater use, 2000

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Water use for Georgia counties, 2000

Total freshwater use, 2000

Freshwater use for Georgia, by county, for year 2000
[Water-use data are in million gallons per day (Mgal/d)]
CountyPopulation
(in thousands)
Ground waterSurface waterTotal
Appling17.424.6359.0763.70
Atkinson7.613.183.376.55
Bacon10.104.561.295.85
Baker4.0738.803.0541.85
Baldwin44.700.659.299.94
Banks14.420.871.472.34
Barrow46.142.015.537.54
Bartow76.026.4359.6066.03
Ben Hill17.488.432.8011.23
Berrien16.248.516.7515.26
Bibb153.895.67149.04154.71
Bleckley11.678.377.8016.17
Brantley14.631.520.231.75
Brooks16.454.991.396.38
Bryan23.422.830.012.84
Bulloch55.9812.982.8915.87
Burke22.2427.2570.8298.07
Butts19.520.483.343.82
Calhoun6.3222.7911.7434.53
Camden43.6643.120.0143.13
Candler9.583.442.936.37
Carroll87.273.208.9012.10
Catoosa53.289.031.6410.67
Charlton10.281.380.101.48
Chatham232.0572.21142.80215.01
Chattahoochee14.880.5015.7716.27
Chattooga25.476.425.1211.54
Cherokee141.902.4417.9520.39
Clarke101.490.4119.0019.41
Clay3.361.494.365.85
Clayton236.521.2926.5127.80
Clinch6.881.500.361.86
Cobb607.751.17465.61466.78
Coffee37.4112.768.5021.26
Colquitt42.0518.1227.7945.91
Columbia89.292.4914.7817.27
Cook15.778.004.0412.04
Coweta89.225.45555.02560.47
Crawford12.504.551.516.06
Crisp22.0015.142.2717.41
Dade15.150.482.162.64
Dawson16.000.621.682.30
Decatur28.2455.427.5162.93
DeKalb665.873.1488.5391.67
Dodge19.174.2411.7716.01
Dooly11.5324.871.5626.43
Dougherty96.0755.98166.75222.73
Douglas92.170.8011.3412.14
Early12.3538.85118.23157.08
Echols3.756.060.536.59
Effingham37.545.29144.01149.30
Elbert20.510.872.343.21
Emanuel21.844.870.995.86
Evans10.503.231.144.37
Fannin19.800.741.382.12
Fayette91.262.8714.3717.24
Floyd90.573.41582.72586.13
Forsyth98.412.4016.5718.97
Franklin20.291.302.503.80
Fulton816.011.62170.31171.93
Gilmer23.461.885.076.95
Glascock2.560.270.090.36
Glynn67.5762.810.0162.82
Gordon44.102.4014.0716.47
Grady23.669.2110.4219.63
Greene14.410.6912.5813.27
Gwinnett588.450.4893.1493.62
Habersham35.901.795.807.59
Hall139.285.7119.6025.31
Hancock10.080.380.771.15
Haralson25.690.463.273.73
Harris23.701.385.406.78
Hart23.001.303.084.38
Heard11.010.6572.8873.53
Henry119.340.8112.7813.59
Houston110.7729.791.1030.89
Irwin9.937.615.1212.73
Jackson41.592.564.527.08
Jasper11.431.361.562.92
Jeff Davis12.684.472.046.51
Jefferson17.2713.2513.7827.03
Jenkins8.584.842.016.85
Johnson8.562.300.713.01
Jones23.642.370.312.68
Lamar15.911.515.196.70
Lanier7.242.300.442.74
Laurens44.8710.7521.5732.32
Lee24.7633.111.6534.76
Liberty61.6117.230.1017.33
Lincoln8.350.620.571.19
Long10.300.840.130.97
Lowndes92.1230.353.0633.41
Lumpkin21.021.462.463.92
McDuffie21.231.234.235.46
McIntosh10.851.050.151.20
Macon14.0716.2515.3131.56
Madison25.732.060.963.02
Marion7.142.481.043.52
Meriwether22.532.653.345.99
Miller6.3831.003.0134.01
Mitchell23.9361.5116.1877.69
Monroe21.763.49122.38125.87
Montgomery8.271.810.842.65
Morgan15.460.881.772.65
Murray36.512.153.115.26
Muscogee186.290.0845.5445.62
Newton62.001.4311.3612.79
Oconee26.232.600.533.13
Oglethorpe12.640.920.891.81
Paulding81.681.472.854.32
Peach23.6712.340.9113.25
Pickens22.981.432.203.63
Pierce15.647.520.758.27
Pike13.691.390.902.29
Polk38.134.204.578.77
Pulaski9.5913.893.0416.93
Putnam18.811.25987.15988.40
Quitman2.600.220.130.35
Rabun15.050.813.544.35
Randolph7.795.064.119.17
Richmond199.7824.47104.10128.57
Rockdale70.110.391.992.38
Schley3.770.520.340.86
Screven15.3719.436.0225.45
Seminole9.3763.796.7970.58
Spalding58.420.9210.3211.24
Stephens25.440.403.393.79
Stewart5.250.892.313.20
Sumter33.2024.4017.9842.38
Talbot6.501.461.182.64
Taliaferro2.080.180.050.23
Tattnall22.316.762.829.58
Taylor8.825.933.519.44
Telfair11.794.881.276.15
Terrell10.9711.1510.9022.05
Thomas42.7417.483.2320.71
Tift38.4117.4310.5828.01
Toombs26.077.267.0814.34
Towns9.320.191.001.19
Treutlen6.851.250.351.60
Troup58.780.6712.4413.11
Turner9.507.059.6816.73
Twiggs10.5919.340.3219.66
Union17.290.840.661.50
Upson27.602.607.6910.29
Walker61.058.995.5214.51
Walton60.692.866.199.05
Ware35.489.001.6310.63
Warren6.340.981.522.50
Washington21.1824.571.5026.07
Wayne26.5764.130.4264.55
Webster2.390.513.393.90
Wheeler6.181.263.694.95
White19.941.662.764.42
Whitfield83.530.1865.5265.70
Wilcox8.5818.294.7823.07
Wilkes10.690.342.222.56
Wilkinson10.2227.410.8828.29
Worth21.9727.8214.6142.43
Total8,186.451,461.914,977.546,439.45

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