The Bureau of Reclamation’s Technical Service Center (TSC) will collaborate with the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in the development of a numerical evapotranspiration model (ET Demands) for estimating climate change impacts on agricultural and urban landscape irrigation demands.
The results
of the climate change impacts on water demands coming out of this collaborative effort will be published and served on a website that will be available to the public.
The results will be used in Reclamation’s Water SMART Program Basin Studies and West Wide Climate Risk Assessments Program Impact Assessments and available to water managers across the western U. S. to use the results for other planning efforts aimed at identifying strategies to mitigate climate change impacts.