<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, all -<div><br></div><div>Those two questions are key, and I think we can answer them. The Water Self-Reliance indicator, when teased apart (right now, it has two "metrics" in it - even though they really are "indicators" in and of themselves), shows what proportion of the water that's used by people comes from the watershed.</div><div><br></div><div>The numbers Lisa put together in terms of AFAs coming down from the sky, ending up in groundwater, estimated for evapotranspiration, and showing up as flow might easily be put together with Peter's water use data.</div><div><br></div><div>Rainer</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 17, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Caitlin Cornwall wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Peter and I were just talking, and we found that we were both not sure that our evolving scorecard will convey an answer to the question of how well the watershed is doing in providing water for human and ecosystem uses. Are the indexes arranged properly to convey that answer? What do you think?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Here are a couple of very basic info-bits that our scorecard could convey:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana">What proportion of the water that falls on the watershed is used by people (vs runoff, ET, gwtr recharge)? Reported as a pie chart, including slices for major land use categories. Info for Sonoma is in gwtr mgt plan.<o:p></o:p></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list .5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana">What proportion of the water that’s used by people comes from the watershed? Reported as a percentage.<o:p></o:p></span></li> </ul> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Where in the scorecard do these facts belong?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Do we have a way to track volatility in weather? That is, not dryness or wetness as we’ve discussed conveying in a row above our indexes on the scorecard, but an indicator of expected increases in frequency of droughts, storms, and floods.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Any thoughts?</span><!--EndFragment--> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Caitlin</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Scorecard mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Scorecard@sonomacreek.net">Scorecard@sonomacreek.net</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://sonomacreek.net/mailman/listinfo/scorecard_sonomacreek.net">http://sonomacreek.net/mailman/listinfo/scorecard_sonomacreek.net</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>