Land and Agriculture – Irrigation Water Withdrawal

This indicator reports the estimated millions of gallons of water withdrawn per day for irrigation. Crop irrigation withdrawals and irrigation consumptive use refer to water removed and consumed, respectively, from a groundwater or surface-water source to produce agricultural crops.Estimation of irrigation withdrawals using irrigation consumptive use and efficiencies neglects some components of water use for crops, including water used for frost protection, salt leaching, harvesting, and other non-consumptive-use based treatments. For this reason, irrigation withdrawals provided here may under-estimate total withdrawals where non-consumptive treatments are significant. Irrigated acres come from the 2022 Census of Agriculture.