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Editor's notes: Sidebar, CNHI Oklahoma Special Project
Water Puzzle: Numbers
CNHI News Service
— $5.4 billion: Cost of needed water improvement projects throughout the state
17 percent: Projected population growth in state by 2030
14 percent: Projected growth in water use by 2030
4,117: Bodies of surface water in Oklahoma
4.2 trillion: Capacity (in gallons) of major surface water reservoirs
52 trillion: Capacity (in gallons) of Garber-Wellington Aquifer, the state's largest groundwater aquifer
For more numbers, visit the Oklahoma Water Resources Board's Web site at www.owrb.ok.gov/util/waterfact.php.
Sources: Oklahoma Water Resources Board, U.S Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Geological Survey, Water Research Institute
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