Water used for public and domestic use in Utah = .552 million acre feet per year.
Water used for agriculture and irrigation in Utah = 5.22 million acre feet per year.
Water for commerce and industry = .26 million acre feet per year.
Water Utahns use annually = 6 million acre feet per year.
Water used for washing a car = 100 gallons per day.
Water used for watering the lawn or yard = 180 gallons per day.
Approximately 97 percent of the world’s water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another two percent is locked up in glaciers and ice caps. That leaves just one percent of fresh water for our agriculture, residential, manufacturing, community and personal uses.
Each day 280 cubic miles of water evaporates or transpires into the atmosphere. Once it evaporates, a water molecule spends around 10 days in the air.
