"Water withdrawals by category in North Carolina, 1970-2000"							
" (U.S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, 2003; values in million gallons per day) (September 30, 2003)"							

Water-use Category	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1995	2000
Public supply	460.0	487.0	570.0	595.4	804.8	769.2	944.6
Domestic self-supplied	111.1	140.0	140.0	169.1	103.0	171.5	188.8
Industrial (including commercial and mining)	620.0	750.0	660.0	556.0	503.0	413.7	338.0
Livestock-aquaculture	49.3	51.8	38.6	34.4	200.7	296.6	132.1
Irrigation (including golf course)	82.0	87.0	162.0	132.4	113.7	238.6	287.2
Thermoelectric power (freshwater)	"4,470.0"	"4,450.1"	"4,277.0"	"6,399.2"	"5,611.1"	"5,863.7"	"7,854.2"
Thermoelectric power (saline water)	0.0	0.0	6.4	866.4	"1,599.0"	"1,553.3"	"1,617.6"
Totals	"5,792.4"	"5,965.9"	"5,854.0"	"8,752.9"	"8,935.3"	"9,306.6"	"11,362.5"

Italic numbers were modified from previously published value.							
Totals do not include saline surface water withdrawn for industrial self-supplied in 1985 and 1990.							
Data sources; 	"1970 - From USGS Circular 676 (Murray and Reeves, 1972).  "						
	"1975 - From USGS Circular 765 (Murray and Reeves, 1977).  "					
	"1980 - From USGS Circular 1001 (Solley, Chase, and Mann, 1983).  "					
	"1985 - From USGS Water-Supply Paper 2350 (Treece and Bales, 1990).  "					
	"1990 - From USGS Open-File Report 94-522 (Terziotti, Schrader, and Treece, 1994).  "					
	"1995 - From USGS Open-File Report 97-599 (Walters, 1997).  "