OpenET enables efficient calculation of consumptive water use to support sustainable groundwater management in California’s Colusa Subbasin

An early tester of the OpenET API highlights its utility for providing efficient and consistent data to support groundwater management By Katie Klug, Brandon Ertis, Jeff Davids, and Will Carrara In the Colusa Subbasin, which spans more than 700,000 acres in California’s Sacramento Valley, data obtained through the OpenET application programming interface (API) and data […]

In a statewide first, California is using satellite-based ET data for water use reporting in the Delta

This blog is co-authored by Will Carrara, California State University, Monterey Bay and Garshaw Amidi-Abraham, Environmental Defense Fund. California is responsible for 12.5% of all agricultural production in the United States, as well as one third of the country’s vegetables and three quarters of its nut and fruit production. This agricultural activity is reliant on […]