Surface water supply allocation, crop, and disadvantaged community data for the San Joaquin Valley, CA, 2016

Societies globally are struggling to meet freshwater demands while agencies attempt to address water access inequities under a rapidly changing climate and growing population. An understanding of dynamic interactions between people and water, known as sociohydrology, regionally could provide approaches to addressing local water mismanagement and water access inequity. In semi-arid California, local water agencies, primarily agricultural irrigation districts, are at the intersection of rethinking approaches to balance freshwater demands. More than 150 years of complex water governance and management have defined San Joaquin Valley irrigation districts and the region's water access inequities and sociohydrologic instability.
Data in this dataset supported analysis of water governance, specifically including surface water and groundwater dependence within and outside of irrigation districts. Additional data includes disadvantaged community designation, allowing for assessment of inequities..., Data Availability & Software
This study brings together detailed data from different local and state sources about irrigation districts. It uses this data to figure out the factors (e.g., the district's history, politics, environment, and cultural characteristics) that influence the shortage of surface water and the dependence on groundwater in this agricultural area. Table 1 lists datasets and sources. The data sources table in the README describes variables calculated from the datasets highlighted in Table 1. The major variables used in this analysis show an irrigation district’s history (i.e., age, dedicated water amount), surface water allocation and delivery, and crop composition within the district’s boundaries (e.g., total crop fraction, perennial crop fraction, annual crop fraction, and revenue). This dataset has the following tables as separate CSV files:

Table 7 includes the variable values per irrigation district (freshwater variable normalized values reported)
Table 8 i..., , # San Joaquin Valley Surface Water Supply and Crop Data

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txnw](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txnw)

This data package includes documentation and tables associated with the \"The paradox of production: surface water supply ensures productivity but not prosperity in California’s San Joaquin Valley\" by Espinoza and Viers.

The dataset includes four tables and field definitions. Full methodology and interpretation of the data is supplied in the associated paper.

The tables support exploration of:

* access to surface water based on irrigation districts' water rights priority dates
* groundwater dependence of irrigation districts
* water access for disadvantaged communities within and outside of irrigation districts

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset includes both a single Microsoft Excel file and CSV files with the same data as well as a PDF listing data sources. The Excel file has five tables, labeled for their number...