EnviroAtlas - Washington, DC - Domestic Water Use per Day by U.S. Census Block Group

As included in this EnviroAtlas dataset, the community level domestic water use is calculated using locally available water use data per capita in gallons of water per day (GPD), distributed dasymetrically, and summarized by census block group. Domestic water use, as defined in this case, is intended to represent residential indoor and outdoor water use (e.g., cooking, hygiene, landscaping, pools, etc.) for primary residences (i.e., excluding second homes and tourism rentals). Three reports were used with city- or water supply authority- level domestic water demand data, in addition to county level data. The 2011 Northern Virginia Regional Water Supply Plan provides detailed publicly, privately, and self supplied water use and population served for 2007 and covers most of the Virginia side of the EnviroAtlas study area. The 2011 Fauquier County Regional Water Supply Plan provides detailed publicly, privately, and self supplied water use and population served for 2007 and covers Fauquier County, Virginia. The 2010 Washington Metropolitan Area Water Supply Reliability Study, Part 1 from the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin provides detailed publicly, privately, and self supplied water use and population served for 2008 by water supplier for suppliers drawing from the Potomac River. Data from these reports were weighted across publicly, privately, and self-supplied sources by population served, resulting in a single water use estimate between 25 and 204 GPD for each of the subregions in the study area. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

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