WaterUse: Total Water Usage in Minnesota

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Description

Yearly water consumption in Minnesota from 1988-2011.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 24 observations on the following variables.

year

year

allUse

total ground water consumption, statewide, in billions of gallons

muniUse

total municipal water consumption, statewide, in billions of gallons

irrUse

consumption for irrigation in 13 counties, in billions of gallons

agPrecip

average growing season June to August precipiciation (inches) for the 13 Minnesota counties that use the most irrigation

muniPrecip

average May to September precipiciation (inches) for the 10 Minnesota counties with highest municipal water pumping

statePop

estimated state population

muniPop

estimated 10 county urban population

Details

Is water usage increasing? How fast?

Source

These data were provided by the Freshwater Society. They collected the data from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and from the Minnesota Climatology Working Group. Thanks to Tom Burk.

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data(MinnWater)
## maybe str(MinnWater) ; plot(MinnWater) ...

alr4 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:40 p.m.

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