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Several researchers affiliated with Water in the West are scheduled to present at the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in the coming days.
Stanford researchers, in collaboration with groundwater managers, are leading an airborne survey effort to investigate where water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains could recharge groundwater aquifers in California’s Central Valley.
New Stanford research uses Zillow and census data combined with machine learning to identify residential water consumption based on housing characteristics. The approach could help cities better understand water use and design water-efficient communities.
Featured Publications
November 18, 2020
This study leverages built environment data from the online real estate aggregator Zillow to develop neighborhood typologies and community clusters via a sequence of unsupervised learning methods to provide an avenue for understanding community water use behaviors associated with housing alternatives and different residential populations.
October 22, 2020
Desalination is expanding within the agricultural sector as a water supply option, but assessing long-term sustainability using a novel ‘triple bottom-line’ framework may lead to better economic, environmental and societal outcomes.
Spotlight
Evaluating the Use of Data Platforms for Water Management Decisions
There has been increasing recognition that the fragmentation of water and ecological data across California hinders effective and timely water management decisions. To help remedy this issue, developers are building water data platforms to pull together the data relevant to the decision-making process. Researchers at Water in the West analyzed development and implementation of 12 existing water data platforms to determine factors contributing to their success, and make a series of recommendations to help future development of water data platforms.
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