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<br />39 <br /> <br /> <br />o-~ <br />OOOoUJ <br /> <br />Coordination and Processing of Public Water Use Data <br /> <br />The information collected by the Southwestern Division Corps of <br />Engineers was provided to the Kansas Water Office, via the Tulsa <br />corps of Engineerso Hence, the Kansas Water Office was able to <br />fully utilize all of the data collected for the purpose of <br />developing public water demand estimates and projections for each <br />county and river basin in the stateo All public water supply <br />data were coded by county and basin according to the location of <br />major water useo This database was not fully adequate for public <br />water demand estimates and projections because it was necessary <br />to consider the amount of water used by the non served rural <br />population and by public water suppliers who did not provide <br />information on their water withdrawal for 19840 <br /> <br />Estimation Of Water Use By The Nonserved Rural Population <br /> <br />In order to estimate the total amount of public water use by <br />county, river basin and state, it was necessary to estimate the <br />quantity of water used by the nonserved (ioeo, not served by a <br />public water supply) rural populationo It was assumed that the <br />per capita water use per day for the population served by small <br />rural water districts (i.eo, rural water districts serving less <br />than 250 persons) would be a good estimate for the per capita <br />water use by the nonserved rural population, in portions of the <br />state that have rural water districtso <br /> <br />A subset of the Kansas Water Office data, containing only <br />information from small rural water districts, is shown in Table <br />100 This analysis shows that the overall amount of 88 gallons <br />per capita day (gpcd) was used in 1984 by the population served <br />by small rural water districts in the area represented by the <br />five listed river basinso The gpcd for small rural water <br />districts in the Marais des Cygnes (83 gpcd), Missouri (62 gpcd) <br />and the Solomon (51 gpcd) river basins are not based on enough <br />data to be statistically reliable, because they had very few <br />small rural water districtso Also, because none of the rural <br />water districts in the Corps of Engineers study were surveyed <br />directly, it was difficult to determine their gpcd water useo <br />However, the public gpcd water use for four Arkansas basins, the <br />Lower Arkansas, Neosho, Verdigris and Walnut (see Table 11), are <br />similar to the public gpcd water use for the five basins listed <br />in Table 100 Hence, this figure of 88 gpcd was used as our <br />estimate of the water use by the nonserved rural population in <br />each of the nine basins listed in Table 110 <br />