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EnviroAtlas - Washington, DC - Domestic Water Use per Day by U.S. Census Block Group

Metadata Updated: April 11, 2025

As included in this EnviroAtlas dataset, the community level domestic water use is calculated using locally available water use data per capita in gallons of water per day (GPD), distributed dasymetrically, and summarized by census block group. Domestic water use, as defined in this case, is intended to represent residential indoor and outdoor water use (e.g., cooking, hygiene, landscaping, pools, etc.) for primary residences (i.e., excluding second homes and tourism rentals). Three reports were used with city- or water supply authority- level domestic water demand data, in addition to county level data. The 2011 Northern Virginia Regional Water Supply Plan provides detailed publicly, privately, and self supplied water use and population served for 2007 and covers most of the Virginia side of the EnviroAtlas study area. The 2011 Fauquier County Regional Water Supply Plan provides detailed publicly, privately, and self supplied water use and population served for 2007 and covers Fauquier County, Virginia. The 2010 Washington Metropolitan Area Water Supply Reliability Study, Part 1 from the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin provides detailed publicly, privately, and self supplied water use and population served for 2008 by water supplier for suppliers drawing from the Potomac River. Data from these reports were weighted across publicly, privately, and self-supplied sources by population served, resulting in a single water use estimate between 25 and 204 GPD for each of the subregions in the study area. This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date February 13, 2025
Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
Reference Date(s) April 16, 2019 (publication)
Frequency Of Update asNeeded

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

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Metadata Date February 13, 2025
Metadata Created Date February 25, 2025
Metadata Updated Date April 11, 2025
Reference Date(s) April 16, 2019 (publication)
Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development-Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, EnviroAtlas (Point of Contact)
Contact Email
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