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What you can do. The reports, charts, maps, text and data files on this site are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. You may copy, share and adapt them, including commercially, as long as you:
- credit us: “New Mexico Water” with a link to this site (or the page you used);
- say if you changed anything;
- keep the data credits that appear on the page you took it from (see below);
- share what you make from it under the same licence.
A credit line could read: “Rio Grande report, New Mexico Water (https://newmexicowater.org/rivers/rio-grande/), CC BY-SA 4.0. Data: U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Reclamation, PRISM Climate Group (Oregon State University).” Each page shows its own list of sources; copy that.
What the licence covers, and what it does not. It covers what we contribute: how the data are selected, arranged and computed, and our text, charts and maps. It does not change the terms of the data underneath, which belong to the agencies and programs that collected them. Many of those data are in the public domain; the rest have the terms listed below. If you reuse our numbers, you are also relying on theirs.
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Our code is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later: the site and the data pipeline.
Where the data come from
| Data | Provider | Terms and the credit we give |
|---|---|---|
| Stream gauges, water temperature and conductance, watershed boundaries, river network | U.S. Geological Survey | Public domain. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey. |
| Reservoir and gauge data, dam inventory, river forecast gauges, snow modelling, boundaries | Bureau of Reclamation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; NOAA (National Weather Service, NOHRSC SNODAS); U.S. Census Bureau | Public domain (U.S. government works). We credit each agency. |
| Rainfall and air temperature, averaged over each watershed | PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University | Free to reproduce with credit. Required wording: “PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, https://prism.oregonstate.edu, data accessed” and the date, as shown on each page. |
| Drought index | U.S. Drought Monitor (National Drought Mitigation Center, USDA, NOAA) | We credit the Drought Monitor. |
| Stream gauges in Colorado | Colorado Division of Water Resources | We credit the Division. |
| Acequias, irrigation districts, public water systems, county water use | New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. The acequia map was compiled with UNM’s Earth Data Analysis Center, New Mexico State University, USGS and the New Mexico Acequia Association | We credit the Office and its partners and publish names and counts only. |
| Water temperature and salinity measurements | USGS; National Park Service Water Resources Division; Army Corps of Engineers; New Mexico Environment Department; Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; Arizona DEQ; and tribal environmental programs, shared through the federal Water Quality Portal | The Water Quality Portal states no licence; we credit each provider. |
Tribal and community data
Some of the measurements behind our temperature and salinity charts were collected by tribal environmental programs and shared publicly through a federal system. Public is not the same as ours to use without care. To ask for a correction, a change of credit or removal, use the contact form.
Corrections
If you steward data we use and want it credited differently, corrected or removed, or you find an error in our numbers, use the contact form or open an issue. We will answer and, where we got something wrong, fix it and say so on the page’s Data notes.