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How does the US use water?
Water infrastructure often gets less attention and focus than other types of infrastructure.
Water falls to the earth via precipitation — rain, snow, sleet — and flows into rivers, lakes, streams, and water-bearing geological strata called aquifers. This is due to things like the Clean Water Act, which set limits on thermal discharge from power plants and made once-through cooling systems less attractive. Industrial water consumption is concentrated in a very small number of locations: northern Indiana for steel production, Louisiana and the Gulf Coast for oil refining, and so on.
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