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National Water-Use Data Archive (compressed MSDOS files)

From this page you can download water-use data sets from the National Water-Use Data Archive to your computer. This area contains national data files, in compressed MSDOS format. Data files are also available in compressed UNIX format, or in plain ASCII format.

To download any of the files listed below, just click on the 'hotlinked' file name.

Note: Netscape does not seem to be able to download these files to your disk...if you find this happens, then download the plain ASCII files instead.

Water-Use data dictionary Get help on data-file types and data definitions.

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 Files for      Files for     Approx.                  Description
   1990           1985         size
-----------    -----------    ------   ----------------------------------------------------
us90st.exe     us85st.exe      35 Kb   US by States (53 lines)
us90co.exe     us85co.exe    1400 Kb   US by counties (3225 lines)
us90w2.exe     us85w2.exe      24 Kb   US by water-resources regions (21 lines)
us90w4.exe     us85w4.exe      70 Kb   US by water-resources subregions (221 lines)
us90w6.exe     Unavailable     98 Kb   US by water-resources cataloging units (378 lines)
us90w8.exe     Unavailable    330 Kb   US by water-resources accounting units (2236 lines)

USGS Water Use in the United States

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