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<br /> <br />Stream bank and Gully Erosion Destroy Valuable Lands <br /> <br />water to accommodate the well-being of the people and <br />support industrial activity within the basin. Municipal <br />water supply includes that for all cities, towns, and <br />villages with centralized systems serving the people <br />within these communities. Included in the urbanized <br />areas are industries that receive a water supply from the <br />centralized municipal utility systems. The rural domestic <br />water use accommodates those people living on farms or <br />in small villages and considered to be residing in <br />individual households. A rural household supply often <br />includes water for livestock maintained in connection <br />with the household. <br />The estimated 1965 basin population was about 8.6 <br />million people, a gain of nearly 630,000 since the 1960 <br />census. Of these, about 5.2 million people live in urban <br />places of over 2,500 population and are served by public <br /> <br />water systems. For the smaller communities, about 1.1 <br />million persons live in towns and villages which are <br />served by central water systems. Approximately 2.3 <br />million people live in individual households, including <br />those living on farms, of which about 1.6 million have <br />running water service either from individual or public <br />water systems. About 700,000 have no running water <br />service, either from individual or public water systems, <br />but 70,000 rural people are served by public water <br />systems. Table 32 shows the 1965 municipal and rural <br />domestic water use by subbasins. <br />This shows that by 1965 over 73 percent of the basin <br />population had public water service and 18 percent had <br />running water from individual household systems. Of the <br />total of 1,773 communities having public water service, <br />the majority (1,514) obtained their water supplies from <br /> <br />Table 32 - MUNICIPAL AND RURAL DOMESTIC WATER USE, 1965 <br /> <br /> Public Water Service Population <br /> Number of Systems Desiring With <br /> Number Individual <br /> of Population Improved Improved Additional Household Annual Water <br />Subbasin l'Iac.es Ser:ved Quali ty Quantity -'IreatmenL- Ser:vice Withdrawal <br /> (Thousand) (Thousand) (Thousand AF) <br />Upper Missouri 95 215 46 3 12 101 46 <br />Yellowstone 65 194 4 1 0 97 41 <br />Western Dakota 110 186 51 0 7 128 25 <br />Eastern Dakota 269 418 179 1 30 279 54 <br />Platte-N iobrara 340 1,876 0 0 0 364 365 <br />Middle Missouri 255 941 3 1 3 395 154 <br />Kansas 348 629 93 0 53 313 123 <br />Lower Missouri 291 1,821 59 0 ..12.. 603 ...1& <br />Missouri Basin 1,773 6,280 435 6 134 2,280 1,063 <br /> <br />72 <br />