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Future United States Domestic Water Demand

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2016-08-16
Population projections, estimated per capita consumption rate, and estimated total annual water demand to 2100 for four future projections based off the IPCC SRES climate scenarios. The estimates for water use are based Bayesian regression analysis on 1985, 1990, 1995, 2005 and 2010 water use from USGS. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Pickard, B., M. Nash, J. Baynes, and M. Mehaffey. Planning for community resilience to future United States domestic water demand. LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, USA, 158: 75-86, (2017).

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