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{JlJL5b~ Urban Domest ic Urban water use includes all water withdrawn from a system operated by a municipal government or private water company for distribution in and around an incorporated area. This water is put to a wide range of uses including commercial (laundries, etc.), industrial, publ ic (fire fighting, street washing, etc.), and residential (household and lawn sprinkling). Over 253,000 acre-feet were with- drawn from public systems in incorporated areas during 1965. About 27 percent of the industrial water used was taken from publ ic systems. The water withdrawn from municipal systems for industrial purposes was excluded for analysis in the study and resulted in a quantity of 216,700 acre-feet for urban domestic use. Thus, municipal water or, as used in this report, urban domestic use is that water required by people and nonindustrial users in a community. The analysis of urban domestic water use was directed toward develop- ing unit water use figures on a gallons per capita per day (GPCD) basis. These figures were used to make estimates of present and future urban water use. Further discussion of urban water use is included in Appendix B. Urban domestic water use for the state as a whole was approximately 124 GPCD, but ranged from a high of 250 GPCD in western Kansas to a low of around 80 GPCD along the Missouri- Kansas state line. Summa ry A summary of the water used in Kansas during 1965 for industrial, municipal, irrigation, and rural domestic purposes is shown in Table 3-1. Nearly 3.31 mil I ion acre-feet of water were withdrawn for these purposes. Irrigation, by far the greatest use, accounted for 68 percent, while industrial use accounted for 21 percent of the total, and rural and urban domestic use accounted for II percent of the water withdrawn. 23.