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Concerns related to the governance of water that have emerged at the global scale have created pressure for, and an increase in, water policy reform in many countries. Simultaneously, Indigenous governance movements related to self-determination are undergoing an immense period of growth and change worldwide; the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been a milestone of this growth. These movements are significant because of Indigenous peoples' asserted rights to lands, waters, and natural resources. In this paper, we explore the extent to which water policy reform efforts recognize concepts of Indigenous governance and self-determination. The extent to which these concepts are...
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Water rights linking table. To support linking of irrigated lands, water rights, and points of diversion.
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This database provides information on Public Water Systems (PWS) and facilitates access to Source Water Protection Program reports that are referred to as Source Water Delineation and Assessment Reports (SWDARs). A public water system is a system that serves 25 or more people or has 15 or more service connections and operates at least 60 days per year. The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) regulates all types of PWSs in Montana with the exception of those owned and operated by the Native American nations. There are currently over 2,000 PWSs in Montana and between 75 and 100 are added each year. There are three general classes of PWSs. Community (C) PWSs serves a community of year-round residents; towns...
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The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has estimated water use for the United States every 5 years since 1950. Estimates are provided for groundwater and surface-water sources, for fresh and saline water quality, and by sector or category of use. Estimates have been made at the State level since 1950, and at the county level since 1985. Water-use estimates by watershed were made from 1950 through 1995, first at the water-resources region level (HUC2), and later at the hydrologic cataloging unit level (HUC8). Understanding streamflow dynamics, watershed systems, and their relation to terrain characteristics is essential for describing and planning water supply, water use, and related land use activities.With data from...
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Contains irrigation water right permits on file with the Wyoming State Engineer's Office (SEO).
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INTRODUCTION • Concerns over the viability of the fractured bedrock aquifer that provides about 1/3 of Rockland County’s water supply prompted a 5-year study by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to (1) define the hydrogeologic framework of the aquifer, (2) assess conditions within it, and (3) identify other potential sources of water for the County. The study was done in cooperation with Rockland County and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. • Population growth in Rockland County to nearly 300,000 people has been paralleled by significant hydrologic changes over the past 50 years –water demand and impervious surface area have increased, and sanitary sewers now serve most areas and discharge...
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Responsibility for water is divided between the federal, provincial and territorial governments in Canada, and each government has pursued its own path. The resulting water policy landscape is highly fragmented. Issues exist that may warrant regional or national policy coordination. Examples relate to climate change adaptation, water exports and ecosystem protection, to name a few. Previous efforts to coordinate water policy in Canada have largely resulted in failure. This appears to leave Canada in a trailing position relative to numerous countries around the world that have pursued a more coordinated approach to water policy. Paradoxically, however, the failure of previous water policy coordination efforts creates...
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Background 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...
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This data set shows the portion of PFLCC's Priority Resource: Freshwater Forested Wetlands that is currently labelled as 'Verified Impaired Water Body' by the State of Florida DEP. Because it takes so much data and time to remove a body from the Verified Impaired List, this data set will not be used as a Conservation Target to indicate water quality within Freshwater Forested Wetlands. PFLCC Staff are seeking additional data sources that could provide that information.
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The data set includes delineation of sampling strata for the six study reaches of the UMRR Program’s LTRM element. Separate strata coverages exist for each of the three monitoring components (fish, vegetation, and water quality) to meet the differing sampling needs among components. Generally, the sampling strata consist of main channel, side channel, backwater, and impounded areas. The fish component further delineates a “shoreline” portion of the strata to be used for sampling gears deployed only along the shoreline. The data are raster in origin, with the center of each pixel representing the sampling location. Cell size is typically 50 meters, although several water quality strata are at 200 meter cell size.
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Shapefiles showing the major streams and water bodies of the SRLCC. For more detailed hydrology GIS data, see the ScienceBase item National Hydrography Dataset to access NHD web services and a link to the NHD website. These shapefiles were downloaded from the National Atlas and clipped to the boundary of the SRLCC. See attached text documents for metadata information.
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These data show the results of for Nitrate monitoring in Florida Springs for 2018. Water Quality in Florida Springs is an ecological indicator for the Landscape Conservation Project for Florida. The project entails large-scale assessment of and planning for the health of important natural resources in Florida, known as Conservation Assets (CAs). Conservation planning at the landscape scale provides a framework for safeguarding functional ecosystems, and their interconnected processes necessary to achieve true preservation of healthy resources. Spatially explicit data from the project informs prioritization and coordination for conservation decision-making. A suite of ecological indicators was carefully selected...
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Coastal Change Analysis Program data was analyzed to detect change in palustrine marsh to open water between 2006 and 2010. The results of that anlysis were used in conjuction with a water layer created by GCJV staff to delineate areas of open water present within 1 km of existing fresh-to-intermediate marsh (KIRA habitat). Layer depicts areas where palustrine marsh converted to open water from 2006 - 2010 as well as other pre-existing open water areas, all within 1 km (putative KIRA home range) of existing fresh-to-intermediate marsh habitat, as delineated by Enwright et al. (2015).
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Kansas is one of the most productive agricultural states in the United States, where agricultural irrigation is a primary user of underground and surface water. Because of low precipitation and declining groundwater levels in western and central Kansas, sustainable management of irrigation water resources is a critical issue in the agricultural productivity of the state. The objective of this study is to analyze and characterize the water use and water balance in the croplands of Kansas using satellite observations, meteorological data, and in situ irrigation water use records. We used actual evapotranspiration (ETa), precipitation, soil moisture, and irrigation water use to calculate water balance for Kansas in...
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The Matanuska-Susitna Valley is in the northeastern part of the Cook Inlet Basin, Alaska, an area experiencing rapid population growth and development proximal to many lakes. Here water commonly flows between lakes and ground water, indicating interrelation between water quantity and quality. Thus concerns exist that poorer quality ground water may degrade local lake ecosystems. This concern has led to water-quality sampling in cooperation with the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. A map showing the estimated altitude of the water table illustrates potential ground- water flow directions and areas where ground- and surface-water exchanges and interactions might occur....
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Following the 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano (Neal et al, 2019) and the subsequent collapse of the Halema’uma’u crater, groundwater gradually seeped into the newly-deepened crater (Nadeau and others, 2020). Water was first observed in the crater on 7/26/2019, and the water level increased over time until 12/20/2020, when the crater again filled with lava, vaporizing the lake. In the intervening time, three sets of water samples were collected by unoccupied aircraft systems (UAS) and analyzed for water chemistry, water isotopes, and sulfur isotopes. The solids filtered from the collected water samples were analyzed by XRD and SEM, as well as digested and analyzed for their chemical composition. Additionally, two...
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Soil water dynamic is a crucial factor for understanding water-limited, arid to semiarid ecosystems (Porporato et al. 2002, Loik et al. 2004, Lauenroth and Bradford 2006), which cover c. 30% of global land area (Peel et al. 2007). The spatial and temporal patterns of available water, i.e., the amount of soil water that is extractable by plants, is a major determinant of aboveground net primary production and plant functional composition (Noy-Meir 1973, Sala et al. 1988, Sala et al. 1997). Climatic conditions including precipitation, temperature and potential evapotranspiration (PET), which are frequently summarized in climate diagrams (Fig. 1a, Walter and Lieth 1967), explain general patterns of soil water availability...
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Active Water Rights of Montana. The data consists of estimated locations of all the active recorded points of diversion and points of use in the water rights database. There are four separate spatial layers: Points of diversion, Points of Use, Points of Reservoirs, and Points of Use for Irrigation (a subset of Points of Use). The version of this data available at the State Library is updated on a weekly basis. For administrative purposes, the original version of all active water rights is given (i.e. Version ID = 1). If change of information about a particular water right has occurred over time, there will be an additional version of the water right, and depending on how many changes, there will only be one other...
map background search result map search result map Water Rights Linking Table for Wyoming Irrigation Water Right Permits for Wyoming Public Water Supply Locations Montana SRLCC Streams and Water Bodies (Shapefiles) The Influence of Changing Climate on Water Cycling and Terrestrial Water Availability in the Southern Rockies Region Water-Quality Assessments of Principal Aquifers Rockland County Water-Resource Assessment LTRM Water Quality Sampling Strata U.S. Geological Survey Water Use Opportunity Landscapes - Drainage Water Management Water policy reform and Indigenous governance Preliminary Water-Table Map and Water-Quality Data for Part of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Alaska, 2005 Freshwater Forested Wetlands Water Quality Coordinating Water Policies: Necessary, But Not Sufficient GCJV Open Water and Marsh-to-Open Water within 1 km of Fresh-to-Intermediate Marsh BLM REA WYB 2011 Montana Water Rights Springs - Water Quality - Nitrate Indicator Chemical and isotopic composition of gas, water, and solids from the 2019-2020 water lake in Halema’uma’u Crater, Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii Characterization of water use and water balance for the croplands of Kansas using satellite, climate, and irrigation data Chemical and isotopic composition of gas, water, and solids from the 2019-2020 water lake in Halema’uma’u Crater, Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii Rockland County Water-Resource Assessment Preliminary Water-Table Map and Water-Quality Data for Part of the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, Alaska, 2005 BLM REA WYB 2011 Montana Water Rights LTRM Water Quality Sampling Strata Water-Quality Assessments of Principal Aquifers Springs - Water Quality - Nitrate Indicator Water Rights Linking Table for Wyoming Irrigation Water Right Permits for Wyoming Characterization of water use and water balance for the croplands of Kansas using satellite, climate, and irrigation data Public Water Supply Locations Montana Freshwater Forested Wetlands Water Quality GCJV Open Water and Marsh-to-Open Water within 1 km of Fresh-to-Intermediate Marsh SRLCC Streams and Water Bodies (Shapefiles) The Influence of Changing Climate on Water Cycling and Terrestrial Water Availability in the Southern Rockies Region U.S. Geological Survey Water Use Water policy reform and Indigenous governance Opportunity Landscapes - Drainage Water Management Coordinating Water Policies: Necessary, But Not Sufficient