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I'm guessing that number is for all uses. Obviously, as being discussed, industrial and agricultural water uses would not be eligible.

The USGS [0] estimates 23,800 mega-gallons per day for domestic use by 268 million people. This is about 89 gallons or 336 liters per day per person.

[0] https://water.usgs.gov/watuse/wudo.html




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