Water Uses and Water Rights:  The National Forests supply water to many users. The Forests are the headwaters for many municipal watersheds in the United States.  The Forest Service manages 191 million acres of land, of that 42 million acres are municipal watersheds.  These watersheds supply 173 trillion gallons of water annually.  There are over 3400 municiple watersheds on the National Forests serving over 60 million people.

Municiple Watersheds.

Safe Drinking Water Act.

Water Rights.

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