Inter-basin surface water transfers database for public water supplies in conterminous United States, 1986-2015.

ABSTRACT: The manipulation of water resources is a common human solution to water-related problems. Of particular interest because of impacts on both source and destination is the anthropogenic movement of water from one basin to another, or inter-basin transfers (IBTs). In the United States, IBTs occur widely in both wet and dry regions, but IBT data are not collated and served in a coordinated way. Thus researchers wishing to account for transfers between basins have faced difficulty in doing so. Here we present the outcome of a systematic investigation into inter-basin surface water transfers connected with public water supplies in the conterminous United States (CONUS), 1986 to 2015. The present open-access geodatabase includes transfer volumes collected, evaluated, and compiled from disparate s

SUBMITTER: Dobbs GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10164180 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature