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Question 1 * What criteria should be used to decide where to start our first regional studies? (Regional studies will be accomplished for all major river basins across the Nation. The USGS has divided the Nation into 21 water resources regions, utilizing the HUC 2-digit boundaries and each of the 21 regions will be the subject of a regional study. The delineations of the 21 water resource regions can be viewed on another page of this website.)
Question 2 * What criteria should be used to identify candidate areas for focused area studies?
Question 3 * What are the appropriate spatial and temporal scales for work within the study units (both Regional and focus area studies)? For instance, if we are constructing a water budget for each watershed within a water resource region, how big should each watershed be? How can we best design the study to provide information useful at the national, regional, and State scales?
Question 4* What considerations should be taken in making the greatest use of existing water availability and use studies and information, which have been conducted at a regional or finer scale, to further the Water for America objectives? Are there ongoing water availability and use efforts that the USGS should collaborate with in conducting this Initiative?
Question 5* States and regional organizations collect and maintain significant amounts of hydrologic data, particularly for ground water and water use. How should this information be incorporated into the regional and focused area assessments?
Question 6* What specific variables or indicators would be most useful to inform national and regional water availability and use decisions?
Question 7* At what scale of watershed does your organization assess the cumulative affects of various water supply stresses?
Question 8* What products and information will be most useful to you from these assessments? Detailed models used for regional planning purposes, such as ground-water or watershed models, often require hydrologic input datasets that maintain continuity across a hydrologic landscape. What kinds of information can be producted from these regional and focus area assessments that would be useful for this purpose?
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