| Product or
Industry |
Unit |
Water Required
(gallons) |
| CHEMICALS |
| Alcohol, industrial
(100 proof) |
gal |
120 |
| Alumina (Bayer
process) |
ton |
6300 |
| Ammonium sulfate |
ton |
200000 |
| Butadiene |
ton |
20000-660000* |
| Calcium carbide |
ton |
30000 |
| Carbon dioxide
(from flue gas) |
ton |
20000 |
| Cottonseed oil |
gal |
20 |
| Gunpowder and
explosives |
ton |
200000 |
| Hydrogen |
ton |
660000 |
| Oxygen, liquid |
1000 ft³ |
2000 |
| Soap (laundry) |
ton |
500 |
| Soda ash (ammonium
soda process) 58% |
ton |
18000 |
| Sodium chlorate |
ton |
60000 |
| Sulfiric acid
(contact process) 100% |
ton |
650-4875* |
| FOODS |
| Bread |
ton |
500-1000§ |
| Canning |
100 cases #2
cans |
750-25000§ |
| Corn (wet-milling) |
bu. corn |
140-240§ |
| Corn syrup |
bu corn |
30-40§ |
| Gelatin (edible) |
ton |
13200-20000§ |
Meat:
Packing
Packing house operation |
ton live animals
100 hog units |
4130
55000 |
Milk and milk
products:
Butter
Cheese
Receiving and bottling |
ton
ton
ton |
5000
4000
9000 |
Sugar:
Beet sugar
Cane sugar |
ton
ton |
2160
1000 |
| PAPER
AND PULP |
| Ground wood pulp |
ton dry |
4000-50000* |
| Kraft pulp |
ton dry |
93000 |
| Soda pulp |
ton dry |
85000 |
| Sulfate pulp |
ton dry |
70000 |
| Sulfite pulp |
ton dry |
70000-133000* |
| Paper |
ton |
39000 |
| Paperboard |
ton |
15000-90000 |
| Strawboard |
ton |
26000 |
| PETROLEUM |
| Gasoline, natural |
gal |
20 |
| Oil refining |
100 bbl |
77000 |
| Refined products |
100 bbl |
15000-1500000* |
| SYNTHETIC
FUEL |
| By coal hydrogenation |
100 bbl |
728600 |
| From coal |
100 bbl |
1115000 |
| From natural
gas |
100 bbl |
373600 |
| From shale |
100 bbl |
87300 |
| TEXTILES |
Cotton:
Bleaching
Dyeing |
ton produced
ton produced |
60000-80000
8000-16000 |
Rayon:
Cuprammonium (11% moisture)
Viscose
Weave, dye, and finish |
ton yarn
ton yarn
1000 yard |
90000-160000
200000
15000 |
| Woolens |
ton produced |
140000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| Cement, portland |
ton |
750 |
Coal and coke:
By product coke
Washing |
ton
ton |
1500-3600§
200 |
| Electric power
(steam-generated) |
kwhr |
80-170* |
| Hospitals |
bed per day |
135-150 |
| Iron ore (brown) |
ton |
1000 |
Laundries:
Commercial
Institutional |
ton work
ton work |
86000-11400
6000 |
Leather tanning:
Vegetable
Chrome |
100 bbl raw hide
100 bbl raw hide |
800
800 |
| Rockwool |
ton |
5000 |
Rubber, synthetic
Buna S
GR-S |
ton
ton |
631450
28000-670000* |
| Steel (rolled) |
net ton |
15000-110000 |
| Sulfur mining |
ton |
3000 |
