Water Use in Nebraska - USGS Nebraska Water Science Center

Freshwater use, including thermoelectric power, in Nebraska, 2005
(Water-use values are in million gallons per day (Mgal/d)
County	Population	Groundwater use	Surface-water use	Total
Adams	33,070	274.66	3.00	277.66
Antelope	7,004	213.65	4.09	217.74
Arthur	378	8.30	0.10	8.40
Banner	733	22.10	4.29	26.39
Blaine	484	8.92	0.58	9.50
Boone	5,772	160.20	5.25	165.45
Box Butte	11,374	187.09	5.91	193.00
Boyd	2,261	4.34	1.64	5.98
Brown	3,328	16.07	64.49	80.56
Buffalo	43,572	247.95	10.32	258.27
Burt	7,455	43.52	1.87	45.39
Butler	8,720	105.14	18.50	123.64
Cass	25,734	17.12	3.24	20.36
Cedar	9,066	81.26	2.83	84.09
Chase	3,866	170.11	0.26	170.37
Cherry	6,098	35.42	17.02	52.44
Cheyenne	9,993	75.43	2.43	77.86
Clay	6,733	156.16	4.95	161.11
Colfax	10,433	75.81	2.58	78.39
Cuming	9,688	48.36	3.10	51.46
Custer	11,410	232.39	25.94	258.33
Dakota	20,349	21.64	0.37	22.01
Dawes	8,636	16.35	11.58	27.93
Dawson	24,617	200.75	118.40	319.15
Deuel	2,004	22.18	6.53	28.71
Dixon	6,155	18.46	3.04	21.50
Dodge	36,078	109.08	4.59	113.67
Douglas	486,929	39.23	750.30	789.53
Dundy	2,133	104.74	5.63	110.37
Fillmore	6,385	146.81	16.33	163.14
Franklin	3,421	122.95	1.41	124.36
Frontier	2,795	58.41	0.74	59.15
Furnas	5,019	45.66	11.87	57.53
Gage	23,306	28.04	74.58	102.62
Garden	1,997	40.50	16.97	57.47
Garfield	1,816	13.07	7.08	20.15
Gosper	2,020	60.88	6.74	67.62
Grant	670	2.82	0.10	2.92
Greeley	2,512	90.51	6.92	97.43
Hall	55,104	237.32	2.83	240.15
Hamilton	9,568	278.74	14.67	293.41
Harlan	3,462	73.55	6.40	79.95
Hayes	1,027	52.58	0.15	52.73
Hitchcock	2,970	38.18	7.72	45.90
Holt	10,784	243.08	28.08	271.16
Hooker	744	4.03	0.27	4.30
Howard	6,708	115.43	15.76	131.19
Jefferson	7,925	48.16	11.88	60.04
Johnson	4,695	8.97	4.86	13.83
Kearney	6,774	165.48	10.67	176.15
Keith	8,330	136.70	28.96	165.66
Keya Paha	902	15.81	3.88	19.69
Kimball	3,782	48.24	2.52	50.76
Knox	8,916	43.03	10.74	53.77
Lancaster	264,814	19.70	4.21	23.91
Lincoln	35,636	249.45	689.22	938.67
Logan	740	23.40	0.55	23.95
Loup	686	11.84	3.86	15.70
McPherson	507	9.42	0.49	9.91
Madison	35,488	104.49	0.44	104.93
Merrick	8,066	197.17	4.29	201.46
Morrill	5,165	76.92	151.08	228.00
Nance	3,666	66.06	16.28	82.34
Nemaha	6,965	4.53	1,120.49	1,125.02
Nuckolls	4,739	39.34	9.05	48.39
Otoe	15,509	3.40	468.53	471.93
Pawnee	2,878	1.89	3.30	5.19
Perkins	3,057	125.20	0.10	125.30
Phelps	9,449	176.44	28.54	204.98
Pierce	7,600	109.33	2.59	111.92
Platte	31,262	223.11	5.90	229.01
Polk	5,421	162.55	8.77	171.32
Red Willow	11,060	52.56	0.58	53.14
Richardson	8,732	2.64	0.54	3.18
Rock	1,567	37.17	2.26	39.43
Saline	14,.195	57.92	13.85	71.77
Sarpy	139,371	26.64	1.66	28.30
Saunders	20,458	143.23	5.71	148.94
Scotts Bluff	36,752	44.68	219.40	264.08
Seward	16,739	122.39	13.38	135.77
Sheridan	5,668	76.53	19.98	96.51
Sherman	3,.112	48.28	40.16	88.44
Sioux	1.,458	20.67	29.13	49.80
Stanton	6,534	29.42	0.77	30.19
Thayer	5,436	101.70	5.94	107.64
Thomas	623	2.51	0.19	2.70
Thurston	7,365	12.01	1.41	13.42
Valley	4,402	79.94	59.22	139.16
Washington	19,772	14.53	567.16	581.69
Wayne	9,211	34.42	1.91	36.33
Webster	3,762	47.92	1.60	49.52
Wheeler	820	49.98	0.59	50.57
York	14,397	267.38	14.10	281.48
Nebraska	1,758,787	7,712.14	4,892.19	12,604.33

2005 WATER USE

2000 WATER USE

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Total freshwater use, by county, in Nebraska, 2005