Water Insights: Short Activities to Explore the NWAA Report

The USGS Water Resources Mission Area has assessed how much water is available for human and ecological needs in the United States and identified where and when the Nation may have challenges meeting its demand for water through the National Water Availability Assessment Report (NWAA). NWAA is the first nationwide assessment of water availability that includes the amount of water, quality of water, and use of water for human and ecosystem needs.

An interactive website was created to highlight key scientific findings of the NWAA report through engaging stories, plain-language explanations, and interactive data visualizations.

https://water.usgs.gov/vizlab/water-availability/

Data can be presented in several different ways to tell a story. The story told by data can be very complex, just like the story of how Earth has formed and changed over time. We often pay attention to the data that connects to us.

In these short activities we will go through each of the key finding’s webpages to try to better understand the data in the report and visualizations.