For Each Gallon Of Water Michigan’s People Use, 288 Gallons Fall From The Sky [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

For Each Gallon Of Water Michigan’s People Use, 288 Gallons Fall From The Sky [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"For every gallon of water consumed by Michigan’s residents and businesses, 288 gallons fall upon the state as rain, in an average year.
Since almost all of Michigan lies within the Great Lakes watershed, much of that rainfall makes its way into the lakes.
From there it will eventually flow down the St. Lawrence River and into the Atlantic Ocean, or else evaporate into the atmosphere, to be replenished by new rainfalls.
According to the state, in 2015 about 187.7 billion gallons of water was used by Michigan’s people in their homes, farms, factories, businesses and electric power plants.
That seems like a tremendous amount of water, but it appears much less so when compared to the amount of precipitation that falls on Michigan in an average year: 54.2 trillion gallons.
Here’s how those numbers look together:
     187,700,000,000
54,200,000,000,000
...Nestle is now permitted to use up to 73 million gallons a year at its facility in Evart Township in Osceola County.
The township gets an average 32.73 inches of annual rainfall, which drops a total of 20.5 billion gallons of water upon it in a typical year."