Making Water Resource Decisions More "Informationally" Efficient: Development of a Geospatial Water Rights Decision Support System for Kittitas County, Washington

Authors

Michael Pease, Central Washington UniversityFollow
Jeremy Murray, Oregon Metro

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Mike Pease

Abstract

In semi-arid river basins like the Yakima River Basin in central Washington State, United States of America, water demand can exceed available supply on an annual basis. More informed decisions about water supply and current allocation have the potential to improve water management. This research created a geospatial water rights database for the Yakima River Basin. The creation of a publicly available decision support system mapping water rights can provide water managers another tool to help achieve this goal. This paper describes the creation of the Decision Support System. In addition it looks at the current utility of the system, and evaluates the potential expansion of the program to link with additional resource management tools.

Recommended Citation

Pease, Michael and Murray, Jeremy (2014) "Making Water Resource Decisions More "Informationally" Efficient: Development of a Geospatial Water Rights Decision Support System for Kittitas County, Washington," International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research: Vol. 1: No. 2, Article 4.
Available at: https://dc.uwm.edu/ijger/vol1/iss2/4