Estimates of water use in the western United States in 1990, and water-use trends, 1960-90

Solley, Wayne B.

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“…For example, drought is endemic in >1.5 million ha of dry bean planted each in northeastern Brazil and the central and northern highlands of Mexico. The Western U.S. is characterized by arid and semiarid conditions with inadequate summer rainfall where the ratio of agricultural use over total use of water is the highest (>85%) in the country (Solley, 1997) and a moderate to severe drought affects >50% of the cropped land (Cook et al, 2004; Miller et al, 2002). Thus, in the western USA, dry bean cannot be grown without supplemental irrigation.…”

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Selection for Drought Resistance in Dry Bean Landraces and Cultivars

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Drought is a worldwide constraint to dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) production. The objective of this research was to determine the response of three dry bean landraces and 13 cultivars evaluated under non-stressed (NS) and intermittent drought-stressed (DS) environments at Kimberly, Idaho in 2003 and 2004. The NS received seven irrigations in 2003 and five in 2004, and DS only four in 2003 and two in 2004. Most water use occurred within the top 0.5 m soil in both the NS and DS. Drought reduced biomass and seed yield, harvest index, and seed weight. Maturity was delayed in severe drought, but was similar or shortened by 1 to 6 d under moderate drought. Mean seed yield was reduced by 62% in 2003 and by 27% in 2004. Common Red Mexican and CO 46348 had high seed yield in both NS and DS environments, whereas 'Matterhorn' and 'Othello' yielded comparatively high under DS but moderately in NS environment. Drought resistance was inadvertently reduced from Common Red Mexican landrace to intermediate levels in 'NW-63' and 'UI 239' released in 1979 and 1993, respectively, and more recently released 'LeBaron ' (1999) and 'UI 259' (1996) were susceptible. Conversely, drought resistance was increased in newer pinto (Othello 1986; CO 46348) and great northern (Matterhorn 1998) releases compared to the landraces and older cultivars tested for those market classes. Seed yield in NS and DS was positively correlated. Seed yield was also correlated with harvest index in DS and NS. All early maturing cultivars except Othello (e.g., UI 59, US 1140, Common Pinto, Topaz, UI 320, and LeBaron) were susceptible. Common Red Mexican did not have any reduction in seed weight due to drought stress. Drought resistant genotypes should be used for determining irrigation frequency, amount of water to be applied, and mechanisms of resistance and for identifying, mapping, and pyramiding favorable genes for dryland and irrigation-assisted sustainable production systems.

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“…Surface water sources, acres of cropland in the Great Plains are irrigated, over half of which is with groundwater (Riebsame, 1990). Irrigated land increased from 3.5 million acres in 1950 to 15 million acres in 1990 (Opie, 1996;Solley, 1997). The South Platte River Basin alone has over 30,000 wells providing 30 percent of the water used for agriculture.…”

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POTENTIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON WATER RESOURCES IN THE GREAT PLAINS¹

Ojima¹,

Garcia²,

Elgaali³

et al. 1999

J American Water Resour Assoc

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This paper reports on the current assessment of climate impacts on water resources, including aquatic ecosystems, agricultural demands, and water management, in the U.S. Great Plains. Climate change in the region may have profound effects on agricultural users, aquatic ecosystems, and urban and industrial users alike. In the central Great Plains Region, the potential impacts of climate changes include changes in winter snowfall and snow‐melt, growing season rainfall amounts and intensities, minimum winter temperature, and summer time average temperature. Specifically, results from general circulation models indicate that both annual average temperatures and total annual precipitation will increase over the region. However, the seasonal patterns are not uniform. The combined effect of these changes in weather patterns and average seasonal climate will affect numerous sectors critical to the economic, social and ecological welfare of this region. Research is needed to better address the current competition among the water needs of agriculture, urban and industrial uses, and natural ecosystems, and then to look at potential changes. These diverse demands on water needs in this region compound the difficulty in managing water use and projecting the impact of climate changes among the various critical sectors in this region.

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“…The majority of water use studies are conducted at the watershed, county or state/ province level (Solley 1997;Ramireddygari et al 2000;Franczyk and Chang 2009;Chiu and Wu 2012;Averyt et al 2013) but seldom at the local scale (Roy et al 2005). While consumptive water use at coarser spatiotemporal scales provides important information regarding the overall impact of water availability, it fails to address the needs of local scale decision making (Doll and Siebert 2002;Gain and Wada 2014).…”

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“…To help define trends and plan for future water requirements, the USGS compiles data from various sources that represent average water use for the previous 5 years and produces county-scale, sector-specific water use data (Hutson et al 2004;Solley et al 1988Solley et al , 1993Solley 1997). In this study, four datasets (1985,1990,1995,2000) spanning 20 years were used to spatially and temporally disaggregate consumptive water use in the irrigation/agriculture, domestic, industrial, thermoelectric, livestock and mining sectors (U.S. Geological Survey 2010).…”

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A High Spatiotemporal Assessment of Consumptive Water Use and Water Scarcity in the Conterminous United States

Moore

Coleman

Wigmosta

et al. 2015

Water Resour Manage

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There is an inextricable link between energy production and food/feed/fiber cultivation with available water resources. Currently in the United States, agriculture represents the largest sector of consumptive water use making up 80.7 % of the total. Electricity generation in the U.S. is projected to increase by 24 % in the next two decades and globally, the production of liquid transportation fuels are forecasted to triple over the next 25-years, having significant impacts on the import/export market and global economies. The tension between local water supply and demand across water use sectors needs to be evaluated with regards to risk evaluation and planning. To this end, we present a systematic method to spatially and temporally disaggregate nationally available 5-year county-scale water use data to a monthly 1/8°scale. Our study suggests that while 81.9 % of the U.S. exhibits unstressed local conditions at the annual scale, 13.7 % is considered water scarce; this value increases to 17.3 % in the summer months. The use of mean annual water scarcity at a coarser basin scale (~373,000 ha) was found to mask information critical for water planning whereas finer spatiotemporal scales revealed local areas that are water stressed or water scarce. Nationally,~1 % of these Bunstressed^basins actually contained water stressed or water scarce areas equivalent to at least 30 % and 17 %, respectively, of the basin area. These Water Resour Manage (2015) 29:5185-5200 Present address: Monsanto Company, 800 North Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63167, USA percentages increase to 34 % and 48 % in the summer months. Additionally, 15 % of basins classified as Bunstressed^contained water scarce areas in excess of 10 % during the summer.

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Estimates of water use in the western United States in 1990, and water-use trends, 1960-90

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Selection for Drought Resistance in Dry Bean Landraces and Cultivars

Selection for Drought Resistance in Dry Bean Landraces and Cultivars

POTENTIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON WATER RESOURCES IN THE GREAT PLAINS¹

A High Spatiotemporal Assessment of Consumptive Water Use and Water Scarcity in the Conterminous United States

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Estimates of water use in the western United States in 1990, and water-use trends, 1960-90

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Selection for Drought Resistance in Dry Bean Landraces and Cultivars

Selection for Drought Resistance in Dry Bean Landraces and Cultivars

POTENTIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON WATER RESOURCES IN THE GREAT PLAINS1

A High Spatiotemporal Assessment of Consumptive Water Use and Water Scarcity in the Conterminous United States

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POTENTIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON WATER RESOURCES IN THE GREAT PLAINS¹