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Harmonized Database of Western U.S. Water Rights (HarDWR)

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.57931/2205619· OSTI ID:2205619
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  1. Penn State Earth and Environmental Systems Institute; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  2. University of New Hampshire Earth Systems Research Center
  3. Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
  4. Moody's Analytics
  5. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business
  6. Penn State Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
  7. University of Texas Austing LBJ School of Public Affairs
  8. Penn State Law
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From Lisk et al. (in review): "In the arid and semi-arid western U.S., access to water is regulated through a legal system of water rights. Individuals, companies, organizations, municipalities, and tribal entities have documents that declare their water rights. State water regulatory agencies collate and maintain these records, which can be used in legal disputes over access to water. While these records are publicly available data in all western U.S. states, the data have not yet been readily available in digital form from all states. Furthermore, there are many differences in data format, terminology, and definitions between state water regulatory agencies. Here, we have collected water rights data from 11 western U.S. state agencies, harmonized terminology and use definitions, formatted them consistently, and tied them to a western U.S.-wide shapefile of water administrative boundaries. We demonstrate how these data enable consistent regional-scale western U.S. hydrologic and economic modeling."
Research Organization:
MultiSector Dynamics - Living, Intuitive, Value-adding, Environment
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI ID:
2205619
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Water balance model (WBM) v.1.0.0: a scalable gridded global hydrologic model with water-tracking functionality journal October 2022
HarDWR - Harmonized Water Rights Records dataset January 2023
HarDWR - Cumulative Water Rights Curves dataset January 2023

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