U.S. water consumption declining
By Dale Rodebaugh, Durango (Colo.) Herald
The use of water, fresh and saline, in the United States in 2010 was the lowest in 45 years, a U.S. Geological Survey report says.
“The 45-year low shows the positive trends in conservation that stem from improvements in water-use technologies and management,” the report said.
In 2010, the latest data available, overall use of water, fresh and saline, was 365 billion gallons a day, the report said. This is a 13 percent reduction in use compared with a total of 410 billion gallons a day in 2005, which itself was the lowest annual use since before 1970.