Data on projections of surface water withdrawal, consumption, and availability in the conterminous United States through the 21st century
Kai Duan,
Peter V. Caldwell,
Ge Sun,
Steven G. McNulty,
Yang Zhang,
Erik Shuster,
Bingjun Liu,
Paul V. Bolstad
Affiliations
Kai Duan
School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA; Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC, USA; Corresponding author. School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Peter V. Caldwell
Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Otto, NC, USA
Ge Sun
Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, USA
Steven G. McNulty
Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Raleigh, NC, USA
Yang Zhang
Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Erik Shuster
National Energy Technology Laboratory, US Department of Energy, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Bingjun Liu
School of Civil Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Paul V. Bolstad
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
We report data on the projections of annual surface water demand and supply in the conterminous United States at a high spatial resolution from 2010s to the end of the 21st century, including: 1) water withdrawal and consumption in the water-use sectors of domestic, thermoelectric power generation, and irrigation; 2) availability of surface water generated from local watershed runoff, accumulated from upstream areas, and artificially transferred from other basins. These data were derived from the projected changes in climate, population, energy structure, technology and water uses. These data are related to the original article “Understanding the role of regional water connectivity in mitigating climate change impacts on surface water supply stress in the United States” (Duan et al., 2019) [1]. Keywords: Surface water, Water withdrawal, Water consumption, Water supply, Hydrologic system, United States
