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<br />CHAPTER 3. RURAL DOMESTIC AND LIVESTOCK WATER <br /> <br />Rural Domestic Water <br /> <br />Present Use <br /> <br />1/ <br />About 424,000 people,- 30 percent of the state's 1960 population, <br />obtain their domestic water supply from private water systems usually <br />serving individual households. Included in this group are people <br />living on farms and acreages and in vi I lages and bui It-up areas not <br />served by municipal systems. <br /> <br />About 332,800 people, almost 80 percent of the above group, are <br />members of households served by piped running water. The rest, 91,200, <br />obtain their water mostly from hand-operated pumps. These estimates <br />were made from agricultural census data~ which indicates that about <br />70 percent of the farms had running water in 1954. Adjustments were <br />made for the installation of additional systems and the loss of farm <br />househo I ds, most of wh i ch wou I d be without runn i ng water. I t was assumed <br />that rural non-farm households had a slightly greater proportion of <br />their population served by running water systems. <br /> <br />Present water use was estimated using per capita water use rate <br />standards (see Table 10) est~blished for planning purposes by the <br />Nebraska Soi I and Water Conservation Commission. The application of <br />these rates to rural population estimates indicates a present water <br />requirement for domestic purposes of about 27,300 acre-feet annually. <br />The usage estimates by river basins are shown in Table 11. Nearly <br />al I the water for rural domestic purposes is from ground sources. No <br />attempt was made to estimate that which is not. <br /> <br />TABLE 10 <br /> <br />ESTIMATED RURAL DOMESTIC WATER USE RATES <br /> <br />Per Capita Water Req't. in qpcd <br />East of PE Line~ West of PE Line <br /> <br />Present: <br /> <br />Households w/o running water <br />Households with running water <br /> <br />10 <br />60 <br /> <br />15 <br />75 <br /> <br />Future: < 1980, 2000, 2020) <br /> <br />Households w/o running water <br />Households with running water <br /> <br />80 <br /> <br />120 <br /> <br />~ PE <precipitation effectiveness) line located at about the 980 meridian <br /> <br />11 1960 Population, Bureau of Census, U. S. Department of Commerce, and <br />1963 Inventory Municipal Water Facl Ilties-Reqion VI, Public Health Service. <br />U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. <br /> <br />2/ 1954 Agricultural Census, Bureau of Census, U. S. Department of Commerce. <br /> <br />25 <br />