Water Use
The Pawnee-Buckner subbasin has a total of 1,193 water rights with an authorized quantity of 242,271 acre-feet. The average water use over the 21 year span was 104,258 acre-feet. Water rights are broken into vested rights and appropriation rights. Water use includes irrigation, municipal, domestic, stock, recreation and industrial water rights. Note: Some water use data came from unmetered sources -- rate/hrs.
| Type | Source | Number of Rights | Authorized Quantity |
| Vested | Surface | 26 | 5,128 |
| Vested | Groundwater | 123 | 20,186 |
| Appropriated | Surface | 31 | 7,354 |
| Appropriated | Groundwater | 1,013 | 209,604 |
The Points of Diversion map includes some surface water rights that are used for watershed dams and account for evaporation.
