Data release for Integrating physical and economic data into experimental water accounts for the United States: lessons and opportunities

Publication Date

2020-09-29

Time Period

2020

Bagstad, K.J., Ancona, Z.H., Hass, J.L., Glynn, P.D., Wentland, S., Vardon, M., and Fay, J., 2020, Data release for Integrating physical and economic data into experimental water accounts for the United States: lessons and opportunities: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TUTMAT.

Type: Related Primary Publication

We developed PSUTs and water productivity, quality, and emissions accounts (U.N. 2012). We summarized these accounts at the national level, and for PSUTs and water productivity accounts provide results for all 50 states plus Washington, DC. Water-quality accounts data were available for only the 48 coterminous states. Additionally, we summarize results for PSUTs, water productivity, and water-quality accounts for six regions roughly following the USEPA (2012) definitions: Northeast (Maine south to Maryland and West Virginia), Midwest (Ohio west to Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota), Southeast (Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Louisiana, plus all states to their southeast), Plains (Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas south to Texas), Northwest (Washington, Oregon, and Idaho), and Southwest (New Mexico and Colorado west to California; see Supplemental Information). We included state-level accounting tables as Supplemental Information. Additionally, we conducted an expert elicitation to conceptually model the linkages between water quality and water use. In the discussion, we describe potential data sources and data gaps for water asset accounts, which prevented us from compiling these accounts but suggest a path forward for their completion in the future.

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