Community Water Conservation, Climate, and Watergy Data Sheets

Visit this page to download selected PDFs by city. Each data sheet, when complete information is available, includes average monthly and annual rainfall, annual rainfall extremes, longest period on record with no measurable precipitation, average monthly and annual temperature, temperature extremes, community’s surface area and population, municipal water usage as GPCD, rainfall received as GPCD, and, where available, percentage of each community’s energy consumed moving (or moving and treating) water.

Community Watergy Calculator

How much water is expended in the generation of electricity from different sources? How much energy, and subsequently embedded water, do average U.S. and Arizona households use per month, depending on where their energy comes from? How about you and your community? Use either the Community Watergy Calculator (Excel version) or our own online Community Watergy Calculator to find out. Also, click to download Community Watergy Calculator (PDF version). Note: although formatting might not be preserved on the Excel version, its functionality should carry through in the download.

Metric version also available for download (also based on U.S. and Arizona usage information): Metric Community Watergy Calculator (Excel version) or Metric Community Watergy Calculator (PDF version).  Note: although formatting might not be preserved on the Excel version, its functionality should carry through in the download.

Water Costs of Electricity in Arizona

Click here to download Water Costs of Electricity in Arizona, a project fact sheet from the Arizona Water Institute showing the findings of investigators Martin Pasqualetti and Scott Kelley. Findings include number of gallons of water required to produce a megawatt-hour of energy from nuclear power, coal, natural gas, biofuel, solar thermal, geothermal, and roof-top solar PV systems. Note: solar thermal energy production uses much more water than roof-top solar PV (or wind) systems do.