Water-use data compiled for the 78 municipios of Puerto Rico for the year 2000. It covers seven categories including public-supply withdrawals, domestic and industrial self-supplied use, crop irrigation, and thermoelectric power use. The dataset was summarized by the USGS from NASA Earthdata.
Use Cases
- Analyze the distribution of fresh water withdrawals across public-supply, domestic, industrial, and irrigation categories by municipio.
- Compare saline instream use for thermoelectric cooling against fresh water offstream withdrawals for power generation.
- Model the relationship between public wastewater treatment return-flows and public-supply withdrawals across municipalities.
- Assess the proportion of total offstream withdrawals attributed to crop irrigation, estimated at 64 million gallons per day.
- Evaluate ground- versus surface-water source dependencies for different withdrawal categories at the municipal level.
Strengths
- Covers all 78 municipios (municipalities) of Puerto Rico.
- Provides quantified estimates in million gallons per day for seven distinct water-use categories.
- Includes both offstream (e.g., public supply) and instream (e.g., power generation) water use data.
Limitations
- Data is from a single year (2000), offering no temporal trend analysis.
- Specific column names and raw data granularity (e.g., per municipio values) are not detailed in the provided description.
- Sample size and underlying estimation methodology for each municipio are not specified.
Provenance
- Source
- USGS summary of data from NASA Earthdata, organization CEOS_EXTRA.
- Collection Method
- Compiled estimates for municipios based on undisclosed methodology.
- Time Range
- 2000
- Freshness
- Static dataset for the year 2000; no ongoing updates indicated.
- Geography
- Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, covering its 78 municipios.