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Water Supplies Falling in Vermont & New Hampshire

New Hampshire and Vermont are too thirsty for their own good and are rapidly running out of water, or at least rapidly losing half of the fresh water that they currently have, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The report finds that demand for water in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire will rise by more than 50 percent. In the past five years, water use was estimated at 26.3 million gallons per day. By 2025, the demand may be more than 40 million gallons per day. These findings were released today by the U.S. Geological Survey.

The study included demand for homes, business, industry and irrigation, but not water devoted to hydro-electric power. To conduct the study, researchers collected information from multiple sources and local communities. They generated estimates of household water demands from these data sets.

The report is called “Methods for and Estimates of 2003 and Projected Water Use in the Seacoast Region, Southeastern New Hampshire.“