It is unclear where the adjusted water withdrawal and consumption intensities are sourced in the data file, NETL-EIA_powerplants_water_withdraw_consume_data_2016.csv. My understanding is that adjusted intensities are based on a bespoke analysis on 2015 data as described in §2.1 of Lee et al. (2020)^1. A cursory comparison of 2015 values^2 to 2016 values^3 shows that values from the 2015 study were updated in some way. For transparency, what changes were made?
It is unclear where the adjusted water withdrawal and consumption intensities are sourced in the data file, NETL-EIA_powerplants_water_withdraw_consume_data_2016.csv. My understanding is that adjusted intensities are based on a bespoke analysis on 2015 data as described in §2.1 of Lee et al. (2020)^1. A cursory comparison of 2015 values^2 to 2016 values^3 shows that values from the 2015 study were updated in some way. For transparency, what changes were made?