CKAN Dataset: https://newmexicowaterdata.org/dataset/water-use

Resources:

• WaDE work on data standards (notes from presentation by Adel Abdallah and Ryan James)

  • Why WaDE?

    • “state primacy is fundamental to a sustainable water future”

    • need a strategy for coupling state-level data to answer regional questions about water use/quality

    • WaDE’s creation was stimulated by Sandia and few other agencies'

    • WaDE 2.0 includes a central database to query/map data in a centralized system on the cloud. Agreed-upon metadata and vocabularies across the Councils' members and with USGS.

  • How can WaDE help state agencies?

    • Controlled vocabulary - harvested terms across the West (e.g., “Beneficial use” is defined differently across terms)

    • resource to learn from what other states are doing on water data/sharing

    • potential funding to western states' agencies (currently working with NM on digitizing water rights info)

    • technical support

    • have a use case repository → have a template that they can help us populate

      • shared some examples from their ongoing work on capturing water rights across states

      • another example is aggregate water use data

        • have info from Utah, CA, WY, NM, and TX (by county consumption use or basin-wide consumption use)

        • states sometime also have custom spatial measurements

        • looking at different front end visualizations

        • ideally, estimates would be at the HUC-level but work with whatever the states provide

    • • • Next steps

          • Next steps

    • Can track WaDE progress on GitHub → beta release to partners/public in Fall 2020/2021

    • support WaDE data interoperability with USGS and IOW Geoconnex hydro features

• USGS resource