This report contains statistical information relating to water use in Arkansas. The principle categories of water use, other than hydroelectric energy generation, are public supply, self-supplied industrial use, rural domestic and livestock use, irrigation, fish and minnow farming, water for wild life impoundments, and thermoelectric-energy generation.

The report includes:

• A table of use and consumption of water in Arkansas, 1980 by use category
• A graph depicting water used in Arkansas by category
• A map showing the use of water by county, by surface and ground water
• A table presenting use of water in Arkansas counties, by both category and surface versus ground water
• A summary table giving Arkansas water-use totals for calendar years 1980-1984 by surface and ground water
• A set of maps depicting ground-water withdrawls, surface-water withdrawls, and combined ground- and surface-water withdrawls by county for Arkansas, 1985
• Generalized hydrologic unit map of Arkansas
• A set of maps giving industrial-, domestic-, and non-irrigation agriculture-water use in Arkansas counties, 1985
• A table presenting use of water to generate electric energy in Arkansas, by county
• A table depicting changes in water use in Arkansas from 1980-1985, by use category
• A table depicting withdrawls of ground water from aquifers in Arkansas counties, 1985
• A figure displaying ground-water withdrawls by principle aquifer

*Includes: 27 pages, 16 figures, 9 tables

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