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Show GLOSSARY WATER-USE COEFFICIENT - For the sectors listed in the manufacturing, govern- mental, and commercial and other water use categories, the coefficient is equal to the quantity of water required to produce one dollar's worth of total gross output annually. Each sector has two coefficients, a with- drawal coefficient and depletion coefficient, both of which are expressed In terms of gallons per dollar of TGO annually. For the households sector, the coefficients are expressed in terms of the quantity of water withdrawn and depleted for domestic purposes per person per year. For the livestock sector, the coefficients are expressed in terms of the quantity of water withdrawn and depleted per animal unit (AU) per year. SIC - Standard Industrial Classification. The Standard Industrial Classi- fication is used to classify establishments by types of economic activity. See ECONOMIC SECTOR. TGO - Total gross output of each economic sector expressed in dollars annually. For each processing sector, the total gross output is equal to the total value of goods and services sold to all other industries or sectors. OBE-ERS PROJECTIONS - Projections prepared for the Water Resources Council by the office of Business Economics (OBE), U. S. Department of Commerce, and the Economic Research Service (ERS), U. S. Department of Agriculture. SMSA - Standard metropolitan statistical area which represents a county or group of contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,000. 58 |