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California drought, visualized with open data
- therobot24 12y agoThis does not work well on mobile
- cmelbye 12y agoIt didn't work well on desktop either. I can't wait until the "navigate to different things as the user scrolls" trend dies—this would have been SO much more effective without that.
- briantakita 12y agoPermaculture & other forms of sustainable agriculture really needs to be a part of this discussion. Natural ecosystems retain water on the land and increase rainfall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLZmwlPa8A The east coast has lots of people & lots of trees. California has lots of people and not many trees.
- jason_allen 12y agoThis presentation format was terrible, which is a shame with so much interesting data to present. Kudos to the data research, but please consider re-publishing in a sane format.
- hnriot 12y agoI agree totally, I switched to FF to see if that would help but sadly it doesn't. The data is awesome, but presentation really makes it impossible to see. I wish the data were near real time, I knew this was a bad drought, but what I was hoping to see was what impact the last few rains have made on the supply.
- wayanon 12y agoAgree too - so the reservoir data goes up and down but I don't know what that's supposed to be illustrating, same with the other stuff like snow packs. I hoped to see something that would make me think 'wow that's serious' but it doesn't seem clear to me.
- BlakePetersen 12y agoBummer, data ends right before last major storms rolled in. I would like to see how this data has changed over the course of the last week.
- BuffaloBagel 12y agoUSGS Water Year runs from October 1 to September 30 (of the next year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_year http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_year
- coherentpony 12y agoArgh, this page is terrible. I do not give you permission to hijack my scrolling mechanism. Stop it. Stop it now.
- bmease 12y agoInteresting that irrigation is the largest use of water at ~60%, but livestock and industrial are only 0.5% and 1.5% respectively. I would have thought livestock and industrial use would be larger. Is this distribution of water common in other states?
- dubfan 12y agoProbably not. Agriculture in the western US relies on irrigation due to water scarcity, but places like Iowa have the opposite problem. They actually shunt water off of their fields. Also, losses of agricultural water due to evapotranspiration are higher in CA than in a state like WA due to the hotter, drier climate in CA.
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- jonah 12y agoGrass or grazing and hay and grain for feed are irrigated.
- maerF0x0 12y agoIt would have been neat if the back tracked it. Water used to grow feed for cattle should have been attributed to livestock not corn/hay..
- ikawe 12y agoYou can find realtime data from LA Aqueduct sensors over at http://api.thirsty.la http://api.thirsty.la I always like to plug my own scrappy scraper here when water issues come up in hopes that someone else might do something more exciting with the data. Note that the samples are a couple days old - their sensor network sometimes goes down, and I get the opportunity to correspond with the kindly LADWP IT staff every so often.
- wayanon 12y ago'Firefox is recommended for the best viewing experience' weird
- nodata 12y agoWhy does scrolling the page change the timeline? confused