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Total Water Usage in Minnesota
Description
Yearly water consumption in Minnesota from 1988-2011.
Usage
data(MinnWater)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.
Examples
data(MinnWater)
## maybe str(MinnWater) ; plot(MinnWater) ...