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Data Brief. 2019 Feb 25;23:103786. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103786. eCollection 2019 Apr.

Data on projections of surface water withdrawal, consumption, and availability in the conterminous United States through the 21st century.

Data in brief

Kai Duan, Peter V Caldwell, Ge Sun, Steven G McNulty, Yang Zhang, Erik Shuster, Bingjun Liu, Paul V Bolstad

Affiliations

  1. School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
  2. Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
  3. Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC, USA.
  4. Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, USA.
  5. Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
  6. National Energy Technology Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

PMID: 31372433 PMCID: PMC6661235 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.103786

Abstract

We report data on the projections of annual surface water demand and supply in the conterminous United States at a high spatial resolution from 2010s to the end of the 21st century, including: 1) water withdrawal and consumption in the water-use sectors of domestic, thermoelectric power generation, and irrigation; 2) availability of surface water generated from local watershed runoff, accumulated from upstream areas, and artificially transferred from other basins. These data were derived from the projected changes in climate, population, energy structure, technology and water uses. These data are related to the original article "Understanding the role of regional water connectivity in mitigating climate change impacts on surface water supply stress in the United States" (Duan et al., 2019) [1].

Keywords: Hydrologic system; Surface water; United States; Water consumption; Water supply; Water withdrawal

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