Freshwater withdrawals by category in DeSoto County, 1965-2000
(Compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey, Tallahassee, all values in million gallons per day; ----, no or partial data were available; N/A, totals not available)
				Domestic		Commercial-		Agricultural		Recreational
	Public supply			self-supplied		industrial-mining		self-supplied		irrigation		Power generation		Total freshwater withdrawn
Year	Ground	Surface	Transfers	Ground	Surface	Ground	Surface	Ground	Surface	Ground	Surface	Ground	Surface	Ground	Surface	Total
1965	0.30	0.40	0.40	0.40	0.00	1.98	1.73	20.47	2.25	----	----	0.00	0.00	23.15	4.38	27.53
1966	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1967	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1968	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1969	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1970	0.50	1.34	1.34	0.85	0.00	0.70	0.00	64.70	0.00	----	----	0.00	0.00	66.75	1.34	68.09
1971	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1972	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1973	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1974	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1975	0.76	2.09	2.09	1.12	0.00	0.59	0.00	64.72	2.00	----	----	0.00	0.00	67.19	4.09	71.28
1976	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----	----
1977	0.74	2.06	2.06	1.12	0.00	1.10	0.00	63.10	1.93	----	----	0.00	0.00	66.06	3.99	70.05
1978	0.70	2.07	2.07	1.25	0.00	0.50	0.00	39.46	1.20	----	----	0.00	0.00	41.91	3.27	45.18
1979	0.70	1.97	1.97	1.21	0.00	0.72	0.00	42.29	1.28	----	----	0.00	0.00	44.92	3.25	48.17
1980	0.70	2.49	2.49	1.20	0.00	0.53	0.00	34.26	1.03	----	----	0.00	0.00	36.69	3.52	40.21
1981	0.90	3.41	3.41	1.20	0.00	0.40	0.00	59.43	1.81	----	----	0.00	0.00	61.93	5.22	67.15
1982	0.79	3.31	3.30	1.29	0.00	0.06	0.00	43.82	1.36	----	----	0.00	0.00	45.96	4.67	50.63
1983	0.80	3.43	3.43	1.16	0.00	0.14	0.00	43.38	1.34	----	----	0.00	0.00	45.48	4.77	50.25
1984	0.72	3.61	3.60	2.19	0.00	0.34	0.00	72.23	2.23	----	----	0.00	0.00	75.48	5.84	81.32
1985	0.68	5.28	5.28	1.68	0.00	0.37	0.00	71.65	2.27	0.55	0.00	0.00	0.00	74.93	7.55	82.48
1986	0.61	4.04	4.03	2.16	0.00	0.28	0.00	63.54	1.97	----	----	0.00	0.00	66.59	6.01	72.60
1987	0.79	4.28	4.26	1.53	0.00	0.25	0.00	61.96	2.92	----	----	0.00	0.00	64.53	7.20	71.73
1988	0.86	5.93	5.91	1.62	0.00	0.25	0.00	47.21	2.71	----	----	0.00	0.00	49.94	8.64	58.58
1989	1.08	10.18	10.41	1.88	0.00	0.27	0.00	67.72	7.58	----	----	0.00	0.00	70.95	17.76	88.71
1990	1.63	9.19	9.98	1.89	0.00	0.26	0.22	97.74	10.51	0.53	0.00	0.00	0.00	102.05	19.92	121.97
1991	0.96	8.26	8.26	1.75	0.00	0.01	0.34	72.07	2.36	0.04	0.29	0.00	0.00	74.83	11.25	86.08
1992	0.75	8.47	8.47	1.64	0.00	0.01	0.72	66.07	1.52	0.04	0.30	0.00	0.00	68.51	11.01	79.52
1993	0.62	8.76	8.53	2.45	0.00	0.01	0.45	56.67	0.53	0.12	0.30	0.00	0.00	59.87	10.04	69.91
1994	1.05	9.29	9.28	2.22	0.00	0.24	0.78	52.31	0.56	0.16	0.20	0.00	0.00	55.98	10.83	66.81
1995	1.97	10.51	10.54	2.28	0.00	0.02	0.39	54.15	1.28	0.17	0.17	0.00	0.00	58.59	12.35	70.94
1996	2.96	9.68	11.26	2.23	0.00	0.15	0.85	63.54	1.04	0.19	0.22	0.00	0.00	69.07	11.79	80.86
1997	2.30	10.19	11.39	2.22	0.00	0.09	0.04	63.97	0.65	0.26	0.18	0.00	0.00	68.84	11.06	79.90
1998	1.84	12.60	12.54	1.55	0.00	0.04	0.18	69.04	0.96	0.41	0.08	0.00	0.00	72.88	13.82	86.70
1999	2.54	10.63	11.88	1.76	0.00	0.04	0.19	75.13	0.19	0.22	0.14	0.00	0.00	79.69	11.15	90.84
2000	4.49	6.10	8.63	2.16	0.00	0.06	1.33	116.95	1.92	0.21	0.16	0.00	0.00	123.87	9.51	133.38
	Public supply transfers represents water withdrawn in DeSoto County and exported for use in Charlotte and Sarasota Counties and includes transfer losses.
	Agricultural self-supplied includes water withdrawn for crop irrigation, livestock, and fish farming purposes.
	Recreational irrigation includes water used for all turf grass (golf, commercial, industrial, and public) irrigation. This category was accounted for under Agricultural from 1965-1984 and 1986-1989.
	Data sources;	1965-1990 - Modified from USGS Open-File Report 94-521 (Marella, 1995).
		1990-1994, and 1996-1999 - Southwest Florida Water Management District, published water-use data, Brooksville.
		1995 - USGS Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4002 (Marella, 1999).
		2000 - USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5151 (Marella, 2004) and Southwest Florida Water Management District (2002).