United States Water

Water Precipitation in the U.S.A.

Water Precipitation in depth
715 mm/year
Long-term average annual precipitation in depth (mm/year 2017)
Water precipitation in volume
7,030.0 billion m³/year
(Long-term average annual precipitation in volume (billion m³/year 2017)

Water Resources in the U.S.A.

This is the sum of renewable groundwater and renewable surface water resources (both internal and external)

Renewable Water Resources
3,069 billion m³/year
Total Renewable Water Resources (2017)
Water Resources per Capita
9,459 m³/person/year
Renewable Water per Inhabitant (2017)
Water Dependency
8 %
Water from outside the country (2017)

Water Use in the United States


Total, by Sector, and by Year

Notes: Years with missing data left empty.
Water use can include water used and then returned to its source (renewable resource).

People with no access to a safe drinking water source in the United States

See world total and list by country

Don't have access to safe drinking water
2,596,862 people
0.8 % of the population of the U.S.A. (2015)

See also

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