This $430,230 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the Assistance to State Water Resources Research Institutes program (CFDA 15.805) will fund a 3-year research project at the University of Arizona to develop the next generation of U.S. water accounting and natural capital accounting methods.
The key products and services to be delivered include:
- Spatially disaggregating USGS water use datasets from 2000-2015 into a high-resolution 30-meter raster data product
- Advancing water tower models to spatially highlight inter-basin water dependency and vulnerability dynamics
- Generating basin-scale U.S. environmental-economic water accounts incorporating sectoral water use, virtual water flows, and inter-basin transfers
- Publishing 3 peer-reviewed journal articles with open-source datasets, methods, and code
This research project will provide data and analytical capabilities to support environmental data-driven decision making and policy in line with the National Strategy for developing environmental-economic statistics. The University of Arizona will collaborate with Northern Arizona University on a sub-award portion of the project.
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