Public water supplies used 8.9 million gallons per day in 2012, down slightly from 2010.

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The modular nature allows them to be scaled up to 1 million gallons per day.

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Water use by the natural gas industry also rose significantly, from 1.3 million gallons per day in 2010 to 10.4 million gallons per day in 2012.

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Electric power companies were by far the largest user, withdrawing 86.4 million gallons of water per day in 2010, and 92.7 million gallons per day in 2012.

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Each would produce 50 million gallons of drinking water per day, equal to 8 percent of Orange County's water needs.

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The well gushed an estimated 53, 000 barrels (2.3 million gallons) of oil per day before it was capped, with some of the oil ending up on beaches or in marshes.

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Petroleum imports grew by 5.7 million barrels per day (87 billion gallons per year).

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The U.S. Agriculture Department has projected a 23% increase in farm-grown exports in the 2008 over 2007, and ethanol production capacity increased by 60% to 11 billion gallons, saving the global oil market almost one million barrels of oil per day.

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