How much water does each crop use? We provide improved estimates for each crop by county, water source, & year in the United States. Our database of ~2.5 million data points is freely available. Paper: https://t.co/NCKInx5YtT Data: https://t.co/ALXW7230C3 1/6

Introducing @MeganKonar to our ERW board. Associate professor in the Department of Civil & #EnvironmentalEngineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign @CEEatIllinois. Find out more: https://t.co/eNp0y4OcZY

Congratulations to Associate Professor @MeganKonar, who has won the 2024 James B. Macelwane Medal! @uofigrainger | @theAGU https://t.co/yA5idxYP66

🔷🔶Proud home of the #3 civil engineering undergraduate program and #5 environmental engineering undergraduate program in the nation! 🔶🔷

Congratulations, @MeganKonar ! I'm so happy for you! https://t.co/m50hH2CRMT

Congrats @MeganKonar !!!

Huge congratulations to 2024 James B. Macelwane Medal recipient @MeganKonar! https://t.co/PjOQ9dsa8b

A new academic year begins at Illinois! #Convocation @UofIllinois

For more details, see the 2024 #OpenAccess paper in @EarthsFutureEiC from Yufei Zoe Ao, Md Abu Bakar Siddik, @MeganKonar, @LandonMarston https://t.co/m0cFMnA9Ks

US cities rely on civil infrastructure to access food, energy, and water (FEW) from distant watersheds. In 2017, virtual water transfers via crops and electricity to major cities were 53B & 8B m³, respectively, surpassing physical water transfers. Highways are key for FEW imports

Curious about Oregon's agricultural water use? Here's a 🧵based on just-published data from @MeganKonar et al. Paper:

New Focus Issue for Environmental Research: Food Systems - “Focus on Trade and Food Systems” https://t.co/Dm9g2rY5An. Submission deadline is 31 December 2024. @alinesoterroni @nvilloria @MeganKonar

Outstanding data set in @MeganKonar's new pub: https://t.co/QZ5ZT383SD Here's a quick dataviz of total water use across all crops in Oregon. (working fast & late at night, just preliminary) Total statewide: 2008: 7.2M ac-ft (31% GW) 2020: 6.6M ac-ft (25% GW)

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Excited to see how you use this dataset! Please reach out to share anything that you use it for – it is always neat to see the creative ways that our research data is used! /end

How are our findings different? Importantly, irrigation in the Mississippi Embayment aquifer is better captured for rice. 6/6

How are our findings different? Irrigation water use increases in this study, although that varies by county, water source, and year. 5/6

How are our findings different? Our findings now have better spatial coverage, since several additional states and use categories are covered by ‘irrigation - total’. 4/6

How is this study different? We now use the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) variable ‘irrigation - total’ to partition PCR-GLOBWB 2 hydrology model estimates, instead of ‘irrigation - crop’. 3/6

This study is an update to our previous paper & dataset. 2/6 Paper: https://t.co/gwkhGOwhYS Data: https://t.co/q8f7cTeuHm Thread: