Data Sources
WaterGapMap is intended to organize public water-data signals and direct reviewers back to source records.
Source categories
- Public structure records, including identifiers, names, types, locations, and administrative context.
- Reported diversion or use records where available.
- Public water-right and decree-related records where available.
- Plan, governance, or administrative-context records where available.
- Public map geometry or coordinate fields used to display records geographically.
Data limitations
Public records may be incomplete, stale, corrected after extraction, spatially imprecise, or inconsistent across systems. A missing record in WaterGapMap does not mean a record does not exist elsewhere. A visible discrepancy does not establish a legal or compliance issue.
Review practice
Reviewers should confirm important questions directly with authoritative source systems, agency records, court records, title documents, engineering analysis, field inspection, and qualified legal or technical professionals.
Use condition: Data shown through WaterGapMap is provided for informational review support and should not be relied upon as a definitive record of legality, compliance, ownership, or water-right status.