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Harmonized Database of Western U.S. Water Rights (HarDWR)
Abstract
From Lisk et al. (2024): "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."
- Authors:
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- Penn State Earth and Environmental Systems Institute; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- University of New Hampshire Earth Systems Research Center
- Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission
- Moody's Analytics
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business
- Penn State Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education
- University of Texas Austing LBJ School of Public Affairs
- Penn State Law
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- MultiSector Dynamics - Living, Intuitive, Value-adding, Environment
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Subject:
- Economics; Water
- OSTI Identifier:
- 2475303
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.57931/2475303
Citation Formats
Lisk, Matthew, Grogan, Danielle, Zuidema, Shan, Caccese, Robert, Peklak, Darrah, Zheng, Jiameng, Fisher-Vanden, Karen, Lammers, Richard, Olmstead, Sheila, and Fowler, Lara. Harmonized Database of Western U.S. Water Rights (HarDWR). United States: N. p., 2024.
Web. doi:10.57931/2475303.
Lisk, Matthew, Grogan, Danielle, Zuidema, Shan, Caccese, Robert, Peklak, Darrah, Zheng, Jiameng, Fisher-Vanden, Karen, Lammers, Richard, Olmstead, Sheila, & Fowler, Lara. Harmonized Database of Western U.S. Water Rights (HarDWR). United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/2475303
Lisk, Matthew, Grogan, Danielle, Zuidema, Shan, Caccese, Robert, Peklak, Darrah, Zheng, Jiameng, Fisher-Vanden, Karen, Lammers, Richard, Olmstead, Sheila, and Fowler, Lara. 2024.
"Harmonized Database of Western U.S. Water Rights (HarDWR)". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.57931/2475303. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2475303. Pub date:Thu Oct 31 04:00:00 UTC 2024
@article{osti_2475303,
title = {Harmonized Database of Western U.S. Water Rights (HarDWR)},
author = {Lisk, Matthew and Grogan, Danielle and Zuidema, Shan and Caccese, Robert and Peklak, Darrah and Zheng, Jiameng and Fisher-Vanden, Karen and Lammers, Richard and Olmstead, Sheila and Fowler, Lara},
abstractNote = {From Lisk et al. (2024): "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."},
doi = {10.57931/2475303},
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year = {Thu Oct 31 04:00:00 UTC 2024},
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