The U.S. Geological
Survey's National Water-Use Information Program is responsible for
compiling and disseminating the nation's water-use data. The USGS works in
cooperation with local, State, and Federal environmental agencies to
collect water-use information at a site-specific level, such as the amount
of water used to produce power at a fossil-fuel power-generation plant in
Kentucky.
USGS also compiles the data from hundreds of thousands of these sites
to produce water-use information aggregated up to the county, state, and
national levels. Every five years, data at the state and hydrologic region
level are compiled into a national water-use data system and are published
in a national
circular.
Calendar Year 2000 Water-Use data estimates for the state of
Kentucky, by county:
A data dictionary (documentation
describing the data) is also available.
Visit the USGS National Water-Use
website. |
