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Water Resources

Water Uses

Agriculture

Irrigation

Drip 95% eff.

Spray 75-95% eff.

Flood 70-80% eff.

Furrow 65% eff.

Hydroponics

Livestock

Industry

Refining metals& paper

Cooling Machinery

Generating electricity

Household needs

Toilet Flushing 1%

Cooking and drinking 8%

Laundry 35%

Bathing 56%

Surface Water

Lake

Oligotrophic

Mesotrophic

Eutrophic

Ponds

Rivers

Streams

The Future Of Water

Water-saving tech

Recycled waste water

Desalinization

Conservation

water ownership issues

Water Availability

Aqueduct

Dam

Disrupt fish migration

Flood control

Hydroelectric power

Dike

Levee

Ground Water

Artesian well

salt intrusion

cone of depression

Springs

River source

Percolates up

Aquifer

unconfined

confined