Brainstorm ideas to let users know the difference between easter and western water rights

[amabdallah]

It's super exciting that Minnesota agreed to share its water permits and use data through WaDE and WestDAAT.

They requested

There may be some details to go over merging Eastern water law and Western water law information in the same interface, so an end-user is not confused by data labels.

Question How should we address their request?

Ideas I can think of

1. We have "Water Allocation Type" in the database. What values does it have and how can we use it in the landing page? we probably need it as a filter in westDAAT as well. I think its important we add this filter especially if users are doing analytics on river basins that span eastern and western states.
2. Should the landing page headline indicate this is an "eastern state." That could be comforting to Minnesota's folks but the label then needs to be dynamic based on the organization name. We need to do that for the site and water right landing pages.
3. We also could change the card headline color from red to green. That would be a visual difference.
4. Somewhere we need to add text describing the eastern states' water law vs the western law

@rwjam What do you think? suggestions or comments?

[rwjam]

Didn't Michele list off a variety of inputs that we could input ourselves? Our WaDE AllocationTypeCV input isn't really being utilized at this time. We could continue to try and store state's native value, then utilize the WaDEname filed to categorize them into pre-determined groups (similar to how we handle ben use), or we could we just manually enter in a value ourselves if not provided.

List of Known AllocationTypeCV Terms I think we can use...

• Prior Appropriation
• Riparian
• etc, etc

I would consider AllocationTypeCV to be separate / different than AllocationLegalStatusCV (which is more about being Active or Inactive)

[amabdallah]

Correct, for the WaDE term, we need to use one of the below terms as a high-level AllocationTypeCV for each water right. Still, we should share the native state AllocationType which can be more specific

AllocationTypeCV Terms (WaDE Name)

• Prior-appropriation
• Riparian
• Rule of capture (Texas groundwater)
• Correlative Rights (California groundwater)
• Reasonable Use (Arizona groundwater outside AMAs) + Nebraska groundwater