Water Use by County
Pumping data is taken from the official 2006 Model run. Precipitation data is average for County taken from US Weather Service.
Total water used is pumping plus average precipitation.
Efficiency is based on the difference between average water use by all irrigators in the Basin and the total water used by irrigators in a particular county. Frontier County uses less total water than any other County while Nuckolls uses the most.
The County that pumps the most water per irrigated acre is Lincoln County in the Middle Republican NRD. The second highest using County is Dundy County in the Upper Republican NRD. Nuckolls pumps the least amount of water but uses more total water than any other County.