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Concern for future availability of water resources in the United States has grown in recent years as a result of increased awareness of competing needs for water supply, irrigation, ecological flow requirements and other demands. A continuing evaluation of the hydrologic cycle in the states of the Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, using both holistic and component approaches, and addressing the questions of when, where, and how much water is available is basic to the economic health and future of the region. Tracking the status of a resource through time will provide managers, suppliers, and users with the information needed to make decisions related to water use and will allow for more accurate projections...

Water Quality

USGS Water Use Data for the Nation - National Water Information System (NWIS)

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. The U.S. Geological Survey's National Water-Use Information Program is responsible for compiling and disseminating the nation's water-use data. The USGS works in cooperation with local, State, and Federal environmental agencies to collect water-use information. USGS compiles these data to produce water-use information aggregated at the county, state, and national levels. Every five years, data at the county level are compiled into...

Categories: pre-SM502.8; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, All tags... California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NSDI, NWIS, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Staes, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, administrative and political boundaries, agriculture and farming, annual water data, atmospheric and climate, biology and ecology, business and economic, cadastral, cultural, society, and demographic, current water conditions, daily, drainage basin, facilities and structures, field samples, gaging stations, geological and geophysical, hydrologic unit, hydrology, hydrology, inland waters, inland waters, lakes, locations and geodetic networks, oceans and estuaries, site information, streams, time-series data, utilities and communication, water data, water flow unit, water information, water level, water table, water temperature, water use, water use data, weekly, Fewer tags

USGS Surface-Water Data for the Nation - National Water Information System (NWIS)

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. The USGS compiles online access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Categories: pre-SM502.8; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, All tags... California, Colorado, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NSDI, NWIS, National Water Information System, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Staes, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, active water monitoring locations, administrative and political boundaries, agriculture and farming, annual water statistics, atmospheric and climate, biology and ecology, business and economic, cadastral, cultural, society, and demographic, current water condition, current water conditions, daily water data, daily water statistics, elevation and derived products, field measurements, field samples, gaging stations, geological and geophysical, historical water observations, human health and diease, hydrologic unit, hydrology, hydrology, imagery and base maps, inland waters, inland waters, lakes, locations and geodetic networks, monthly water statistics, oceans and estuaries, peak-flow data, real-time water data, streamflow, streams, surface water data, tutorial, utilities and communication, water information, water level, water levels, water statistics, water statistics, water table, water temperature, Fewer tags

National Water Use Projects

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Use program, responding to directives in Section 9508 of the SECURE Water Act of 2009, provides improved water use data collection techniques as well as development of estimation methods and development and application of water use models to improve reporting of water withdrawal and consumptive use information for 8 categories of use (public supply, domestic, irrigation, thermoelectric power, self-supplied industrial, mining, livestock, and aquaculture). The Water Use program has been strategically designed to achieve multiple objectives in the USGS Water Mission Area (WMA) Strategic Science Plan, including Goal 2, Objective 2.4 - Develop a comprehensive understanding of human...

Tags: HUC12 water use estimates, National water-use models, data collectors, model uncertainty, physics and machine learning models, All tags... water use visualization, Fewer tags

Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox

The Water Harvesting Assessment Toolbox is a prototype decision aid designed to help communities in the Southwest US understand the role water harvesting can play in meeting water resource challenges while providing multiple additional benefits. It also introduces water harvesting techniques and suggests ways to implement locally appropriate water harvesting efforts. The Toolbox is intended for a wide range of users. In order to make most effective use of the Toolbox, a local facilitator should convene a varied group of community personnel (water supply management, stormwater management, transportation, planning, engineering, etc.) to go through the water harvesting assessment process together. A separate Facilitator’s...

Categories: Data; Tags: Applications and Tools, Applications and Tools, Arizona, Conservation Planning, DLCC, All tags... Data, Data, Data.gov Desert LCC, Decision Support, Decision Support Tool, Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Desert Water Harvesting Initiative, Document, EARTH SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT, Engineering, HUMAN DIMENSIONS, LCC Network Science Catalog, Madrean Watersheds Pilot Area, Planning, Presentation, Rainwater Harvesting, Report, Report, Socio-economics/Ecosystem Services, State agencies, Stormwater Harvesting, Stormwater Management, The University of Arizona, Transportation, U.S. Southwest, United States, United States Bureau of Reclamation, WATER MANAGEMENT, Water Harvesting, Water Supply and Management, Water Use, Website, completed, environment, Fewer tags

Water Use in New York

Problem - The demand for water in New York State is unevenly distributed. Because increasing competition for local supplies could lead to shortages, it is expedient to know how and where water is withdrawn, delivered, and used. There are many dimensions to water-use issues, and all should be considered to develop a full understanding of the use and delivery of water in the State. In order to apply water-use information to problems of water-demand management, many data elements need to be collected and stored in a convenient location and format. The categories of water use most commonly considered include public-water supply, domestic, thermoelectric power generation, industrial, irrigation and, to a lesser degree,...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Cooperative Water Program, New York, New York state, USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, All tags... Water Use, Water Use, Water Use and Availability Science, Water Use and Availability Science, Water use, Water-Use, Water-Use, Fewer tags

National Water-Well Database (NWWDB): State Water-Well Records for Oklahoma

This Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GeoPackage (.gpkg) contains water-well point features and associated tables for the state of Oklahoma that have been reformatted based on a USGS profile of the OGC GroundWaterML2 (GWML2) standard (https://docs.ogc.org/is/19-013/19-013.html). The water-well records provided in this data set have not received additional processing or interpretation by the USGS beyond the GWML2 standardization. The National Water-Well Database (NWWDB) is a compilation of water-well records from state-managed databases that have been standardized to a common format for consistency across state and administrative boundaries. Water-well completion reports that are submitted to permitting state agencies...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: North America, Oklahoma, United States, bedrock geologic units, data integration, All tags... geography, geoscientific information, groundwater, groundwater level, hydrogeology, inland waters, stratigraphy, unconsolidated deposits, water budget, well drilling, Fewer tags

USGS Water-Quality Data for the Nation - National Water Information System (NWIS)

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. The USGS compiles online access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Categories: pre-SM502.8; Tags: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, All tags... California, Colorado, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, NSDI, NWIS, National Water Information System Mapper, National Water Information System: Mapper, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), United Staes, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, active water monitoring locations, administrative and political boundaries, agriculture and farming, annual water data, atmospheric and climate, biology and ecology, business and economic, cadastral, cultural, society, and demographic, current water condition, current water conditions, daily, drainage basin, elevation and derived products, facilities and structures, field samples, gaging stations, geological and geophysical, ground water, ground-water, groundwater, groundwater data, human health and diease, hydrologic unit, hydrology, hydrology, imagery and base maps, inland waters, inland waters, lakes, locations and geodetic networks, oceans and estuaries, real-time water data, site information, streamflow, streams, surface water, surface-water data, time-series data, utilities and communication, water data, water flow unit, water information, water level, water levels, water quality, water statistics, water table, water temperature, water use, water use data, water web services, water-quality data, weekly, Fewer tags

Colorado Water Science Center

* Presentation of real-time streamflow, water-quality, groundwater levels data * Operation and oversight of an extensive network of water-resource monitoring gages * Archive of water-resource information collected for more than 100 years * Data collection and investigative studies related to issues of concern to water-management entities and citizens * Publishing data and topical reports

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Water Budget Components for a Sample Water Allocation Scenario for 2020 - 2036

A fully calibrated and validated SWAT model was used to provide watershed simulation results including irrigation water availability, crop evapotranspiration, outflow, and other components of the water budget such as groundwater recharge under different climate conditions (Dry (access1_0 rcp85) and Wet (fio_esm rcp45); Samimi et al., 2022), and selected environmental water allocation scenarios. The results are presented in the annual time interface for each Hydrologic Response Unit (HRU) in the watershed. We later aggregated these data to determine the values of each related component across the watershed. The data are available as open source to the public.

Categories: Data; Tags: Irrigation water availability, Rio Bravo, Rio Grande, Soil and Water Analysis Tool (SWAT), Water budget components, All tags... intelligenceMilitary, Fewer tags

Water-table contours of Nevada

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This data set consists of water-table contours for Nevada. These data were created as part of an effort to provide statewide information on water table and depth to ground water for Nevada. The data set was constructed from water-table contours published in 38 reports between 1961 and 2004. Data used to make the contours were collected from 1947 to 2004. The reports used were a subset of 104 reports identified during a literature...

Tags: Great Basin, NSDI, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), contour, All tags... ground water, inlandWaters, water table, Fewer tags

Water Reliability in the West - 2021 SECURE Water Act Report

Categories: Publication; Types: Citation

Depth to ground water of Nevada

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This is a raster-based, depth to ground-water data set for the State of Nevada. The source of this data set is a statewide water-table contour data set constructed from water-table contours collected from 1947 to 2004 and published in 38 reports from 1961 to 2004, depth to ground water contours from Static Ground Water Levels of Nevada published in 1974, and depth to ground water contours from Diamond Valley published in 2006.

Categories: pre-SM502.8; Tags: Great Basin, NSDI, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), depth to ground water, All tags... depth to ground-water surface, ground water, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

Water-wildlife hotspot maps

Water-Wildlife Hotspots: Areas where changes in water availability (recharge plus runoff) and loss of critical habitat coincide. These maps display percent change in water availability relative to the 1981-2010 climate period where 5% or more of watershed area has lost critical habitat. Water availability is defined as recharge plus runoff. Critical habitat is defined as critical priority conservation areas mapped in the California Rangeland Conservation Coalition’s focus area map (http://www.carangeland.org/focusarea.html) (TNC, 2007). Percent change in water availability is provided for two climate projections for each of the three IPCC-SRES scenarios – A1B, A2 and B1. Scenarios of critical habitat loss for years...

Categories: Data; Tags: Completed, LCC Network Science Catalog, data.gov California LCC, environment, geographicDataset

Water-table altitude of Nevada

These data were released prior to the October 1, 2016 effective date for the USGS’s policy dictating the review, approval, and release of scientific data as referenced in USGS Survey Manual Chapter 502.8 Fundamental Science Practices: Review and Approval of Scientific Data for Release. This is a raster-based, depth to ground-water data set for the State of Nevada. The source of this data set is a statewide water-table contour data set constructed from water-table contours collected from 1947 to 2004 and published in 38 reports from 1961 to 2004, depth to ground water contours from Static Ground Water Levels of Nevada published in 1974, and depth to ground water contours from Diamond Valley published in 2006.

Categories: pre-SM502.8; Tags: Great Basin, NSDI, Nevada, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), gound-water surface, All tags... ground water, ground-water altitude, inlandWaters, Fewer tags

National Water Quality Assessment Program -- Water-Quality Assessments of Principal Aquifers

A major focus of the NAWQA Program in its second decade (2002-2013) is on regional- and national-scale assessments of groundwater-quality status and trends in principal aquifers. The U.S. Geological Survey Office of Groundwater has identified 62 principal aquifers in the U.S. (U.S. Geological Survey, 2003). About 1/3 of the Nation's principal aquifers are the focus of water-quality assessments at the regional scale by NAWQA. The NAWQA framework for principal aquifer assessments considers the physical setting of the aquifer, in addition to its susceptibility and vulnerability to contamination. More information (USGS Fact Sheet 2005-3013, PDF, Adobe reader is freely available to read a PDF) Publications Contact Information...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: Focused Assessments, Groundwater-Quality Monitoring, Groundwater-Quality Monitoring, National Study, National Water Quality Assessment Program, All tags... USGS New York Water Science Center, WSC, Water Quality, Water quality, Fewer tags

Water farming demonstration project

Innovative Conservation incentives beyond easements and fee simple purchase are needed for conservation in Florida. In east central Florida, citrus farm owners and agencies have developed a method of storing additional water on shallow citrus groves called water farming. This water storage will help remove harmful point source discharges to the Indian River Lagoon. In support of the development and implementation of wildlife regulatory assurance for Dispersed Water Management (DWM) projects in the Northern Everglades, especially for Water Farmers in the St. Lucie River and Estuary Watershed, the PI provided coordination to support development of a multi-party agreement among USFWS, FWC, FDACS, SFWMD, SJRWMD, and...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, Conservation Design, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Other, All tags... Peninsular Florida Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Presentation, Project, completed, environment, environment, water farming, working lands, Fewer tags

MMSD Contaminants in Water and Sediment

The content within this page includes links to data releases related to contaminants in water and sediment that were published as part of the Watercourse Corridor Study.