getWaterUse: Gather time series of water use data

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Description

This function gathers and summarizes water use data from USGS NWIS by county, year, source (surface or groundwater) and quality (fresh or saline)

Usage

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getWaterUse(states, counties, years = "ALL")

Arguments

states

list of state abbreviations

counties

list of county name lists for each state

years

list of years of available data

Value

list of dataframes of water withdrawals (MGD) by use category, one for each water source and quality:

swf

surface water, fresh

gwf

groundwater, fresh

sws

surface water, saline

gws

groundwater, saline

Examples

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wu <- getWaterUse(c('IL'), list(c('Cook', 'DeKalb')))

USEPA/CityWaterBalance documentation built on May 9, 2019, 5:22 p.m.