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Approximately 85 Dercent of the 14.2 trillion gallons of water used 

 by manufacturing plants 1n 1964 was accounted for by four major 

 Industry groups. Namely: Primary Metal Industries, Chemical and 

 Allied Products, Paper and Allied Products, and Petroleum and Allied 

 Products. Most of the growth in manufacturing water demands between 

 1954 and 1964 may be attributed to these four industry groups. This 

 may be expected to continue in at least the near future. Blast fur- 

 naces and steel mills alone accounted for 27 Dercent of the total; 

 Industrial chemicals for about 21 percent of the total. Relatively 

 large industry units account for nearly all measured industrial uses; 

 3 percent of the firms inventoried by the Census of Manufactures made 

 up 97 percent of the total Industrial water used for the Nation. 



Estuarine economic areas identified as having significant concentra- 

 tions of high water use industries are: 



(1) Chemicals and allied products: New York-Northeast 

 New Jersey, Philadelphia-New Jersey-Delaware Coast and the 

 Texas North Gulf Coast. 



(2) Petroleum refining: Ph1ladelDh1a-New Jersey-Delaware 

 Coast, Louisiana Coast, Texas North Gulf Coast and Texas 

 South Gulf Coast, and California Coast. 



(3) Paper and allied products: Marine Coast, South 

 Carolina Coast, Georgia-Eastern Florida Coast, Central 

 Florida Gulf Coast, Mississippi-Alabama-West Florida 

 Coast, Oregon Coast and Washington Coast. 



