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Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply
Over 80% of municipal (i.e., excluding industrial and agricultural) water use in Canada comes from streams, lakes, and reservoirs. These freshwater bodies and their catchments require adequate protection to secure drinking water supply for Canadians. Canada, like most countries, lacks a consolidated...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10654703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37973853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02732-9 |
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author | Robinne, François-Nicolas Lamache, Chloé Thompson, Daniel K. Leach, Jason A. Bladon, Kevin D. |
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description | Over 80% of municipal (i.e., excluding industrial and agricultural) water use in Canada comes from streams, lakes, and reservoirs. These freshwater bodies and their catchments require adequate protection to secure drinking water supply for Canadians. Canada, like most countries, lacks a consolidated national dataset of municipal catchments, arguably due to gaps in data availability. Against this backdrop, we present the Canada Source Watershed Polygons dataset, or Can-SWaP. Can-SWaP was created using point locations of more than 3,300 municipal water licences defining rights to surface water withdrawal. Where possible, the resulting 1,574 catchments were assessed for accuracy in spatial coverage against provincial and local datasets. Each watershed in Can-SWaP has an estimated water volume used for municipal water purposes derived from licencing data, and several variables from RiverATLAS for investigating the integrity of surface drinking water sources in Canada. Furthermore, basing our method on the HydroSHEDS suite of global products offers a robust framework for the production of other national datasets following an established international standard. |
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spelling | pubmed-106547032023-11-16 Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply Robinne, François-Nicolas Lamache, Chloé Thompson, Daniel K. Leach, Jason A. Bladon, Kevin D. Sci Data Data Descriptor Over 80% of municipal (i.e., excluding industrial and agricultural) water use in Canada comes from streams, lakes, and reservoirs. These freshwater bodies and their catchments require adequate protection to secure drinking water supply for Canadians. Canada, like most countries, lacks a consolidated national dataset of municipal catchments, arguably due to gaps in data availability. Against this backdrop, we present the Canada Source Watershed Polygons dataset, or Can-SWaP. Can-SWaP was created using point locations of more than 3,300 municipal water licences defining rights to surface water withdrawal. Where possible, the resulting 1,574 catchments were assessed for accuracy in spatial coverage against provincial and local datasets. Each watershed in Can-SWaP has an estimated water volume used for municipal water purposes derived from licencing data, and several variables from RiverATLAS for investigating the integrity of surface drinking water sources in Canada. Furthermore, basing our method on the HydroSHEDS suite of global products offers a robust framework for the production of other national datasets following an established international standard. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10654703/ /pubmed/37973853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02732-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Data Descriptor Robinne, François-Nicolas Lamache, Chloé Thompson, Daniel K. Leach, Jason A. Bladon, Kevin D. Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply |
title | Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply |
title_full | Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply |
title_fullStr | Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply |
title_full_unstemmed | Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply |
title_short | Canada Source Watershed Polygons (Can-SWaP): A dataset for the protection of Canada’s municipal water supply |
title_sort | canada source watershed polygons (can-swap): a dataset for the protection of canada’s municipal water supply |
topic | Data Descriptor |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10654703/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37973853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02732-9 |
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