California has published historic monthly water use at diversions points related to their water rights. To start with, let's look into the file 2016-2018 which size is huge ~ 3GB. It crashed on me so I think it only can be opened in Python or R.
https://data.ca.gov/dataset/california-water-rights-water-use-reported
This data is more comprehensive than the M&I water use data source we imported before but this new one is for PODs only. USGS may love this new monthly dataset. Let's map it into WaDE and see how aligns with what we and USGS want.
California has published historic monthly water use at diversions points related to their water rights. To start with, let's look into the file 2016-2018 which size is huge ~ 3GB. It crashed on me so I think it only can be opened in Python or R. https://data.ca.gov/dataset/california-water-rights-water-use-reported
This data is more comprehensive than the M&I water use data source we imported before but this new one is for PODs only. USGS may love this new monthly dataset. Let's map it into WaDE and see how aligns with what we and USGS want.