{"id":302,"date":"2022-11-09T01:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T01:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/?p=302"},"modified":"2025-04-21T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T08:51:55","slug":"a-way-of-tracking-water-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/?p=302","title":{"rendered":"A Way of Tracking Water Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) provides real-time data on water quantity, quality, and use to support systems required for daily water operations and decision-making during water crises. The headwaters of the Colorado and Gunnison River Basins provide an opportunity to apply NGWOS in a snowmelt-dominated system in the mountain west region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The US Geological Survey is incorporating water issues into research projects in order to successfully solve the nation&#8217;s most important water-resource problems. The initial step toward resolving these water concerns is to research at least ten medium-sized Integrated Water Science (IWS) basins (10,000 to 20,000 square miles). High-density monitoring and cutting-edge research will be used to better understand and model factors influencing water availability (quantity, quality, and consumption) in basins, states, and even the country as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The most critical section of the Colorado River, the Upper Colorado Basin was chosen first to test this innovative technique. Under the NGWOS Program, existing snow, streamflow, groundwater, and water-quality monitoring networks are being expanded to incorporate cutting-edge data collection that will improve hydrologic modeling and knowledge of snow-dominated hydrologic systems. This will help to reduce the quantity of water utilized, so that as a community, we can work to ensure that the amount of water in the Colorado River is used appropriately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_9932-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_9932-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_9932-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_9932-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_9932-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_9932-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_9932.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is a photo from the Colorado River. <br>Photo Credit: Juliet Studness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sources Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNext Generation Water Observing System: Upper Colorado River Basin Active.\u201d <em>Next Generation Water Observing System: Upper Colorado River Basin | U.S. Geological Survey<\/em>, https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/mission-areas\/water-resources\/science\/next-generation-water-observing-system-upper-colorado-river. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Next Generation Water Observing System (NGWOS) provides real-time data on water quantity, quality, and use to support systems required for daily water operations and decision-making during water crises. The headwaters of the Colorado and Gunnison River Basins provide an opportunity to apply NGWOS in a snowmelt-dominated system in the mountain west region. The US &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/?p=302\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Way of Tracking Water Levels&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.environmentallyengaged.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}