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Industrial use refers to water used by industries that obtain their supplies directly from surface or groundwater then discharge it into receiver bodies. The term does not include electricity plants or industries that obtain their supplies from the potable-water network and dump their waste into the municipal sewage system. Abstraction for industrial use is estimated at 4.083 km3/year, or 5 percent of total national extraction. Some 61 percent comes from groundwater and the rest from surface waters (Figure 32.1). Thirty-five per cent of the volume of water is used as a raw material or as a means of production in various processes. This makes quality an important factor. Groundwater is preferred because its quality is regarded as superior (CNA 2001).
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Biswas, A.K. (2003). Industrial Use. In: Biswas, A.K. (eds) Water Resources of North America. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10868-0_32
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