Water Futures

Interactive visualisation of water supply scenarios and outcomes: http://waterfutures-eastlondon.org.uk/.

The full site source code, including data and model outputs, is available to download:

Tom Russell, Mohammad Mortazavi-Naeini, Kayla Schulte, & Catharina Landström. (2019). Water Futures (Version v1.0.0). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4680586

Description

Water Futures is an educational visualisation tool aiming to communicate water resource management challenges (using WATHNET water supply scenario outputs) to members of the public, from secondary school students to adults with a general interest.

Contributors

Water Futures has been developed at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford in collaboration with Thames21.

• Catharina Landström (project lead, ECI)
• Edel Fingleton (project lead, Thames21)
• Mohammad Mortazavi-Naeini (modelling)
• Tom Russell (visualisation design, development and data processing)
• Kayla Schulte (web design and content)

Open Source

Water Futures visualisation code is open source under the MIT license.

Thanks to the following open source libraries:

• leaflet
• turf
• d3
• vega
• underscore

Image credits

• /data/images/abbey-mills-pumping-station.jpg Abbey Mills Pumping Station, by Velella 2005 CC-BY-SA
• /data/images/catchment.png Schematic of dendritic drainage basin, by Zimbres 2005 CC-BY-SA
• /data/images/desalination.jpg London's desalination plant is on the site of the Beckton Sewage Treatment Works. Photo from Thames Water via Londonist 2015
• /data/images/distribution.jpg Pipes, John Mann CC-BY-SA 2.0
• /data/images/groundwater.png Ground-water flow paths vary greatly in length, depth, and traveltime from points of recharge to points of discharge in the groundwater system, by T.C. Winter, J.W. Harvey, O.L. Franke, and W.M. Alley (USGS, 1998) public domain.
• /data/images/lee.jpg Image of the River Lee at Olympic Park, Oast House Archive 2012 CC-BY-SA
• /data/images/littleton.jpg Littleton Pumping Station, by Chris Allen 1997 CC-SA
• /data/images/reservoirs.jpg Staines Reservoirs from the Air, Christine Matthews 2011 CC-BY-SA
• /data/images/thames.jpg River Thames in London, 2017 CC0 from https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1362266
• /data/images/treatment.jpg View of the Aquafin waste water treatment plant of Antwerpen-Zuid, located in the south side of the conurbation of Antwerp, by Annabel 2009 CC-BY-SA
• /data/images/wrz.png Water Resource Zones in Thames Water Supply Area, Thames Water 2015, from https://sustainability.thameswater.co.uk/-/media/site-content/corporate-responsibility/pdfs/wrmp14.pdf

Data

Model Parameters and Outputs

/data/model_parameters contains parameters:

• demand.csv lists the demand scenarios
• interventions.csv lists the possible interventions (actions that could be taken)
• plans.csv lists the plans modelled (each plan contains a combination of interventions)

/data/model_outputs contains model outputs, files named by climate (river flows) scenario, demand scenario, action taken, and iteration:

• climate_historical__demand_historical__action__none.csv
• climate_{near-future,far-future}__demand_{2063,2547,2935}__action__(none,1,2,3,4,5)_iteration_{1..100}.csv

data/model_output_stats contains summaries over model outputs:

• summary-across-plans.csv compares plans under high demand, near future flows scenario (all realisations)
• summary-across-scenarios.csv compares demand and future flow scenarios, under 'no change' plan (all realisations)

Model output CSV files have the following columns:

id	description
date	Simulation date in format yyyy-mm-dd
flow_windsor	Flow at Windsor (Ml)
storage	Total London storage (Ml)
shortfall_london	Total London shortfall (Ml)
restrictions	Level of restrictions (0, 1, 2, 3 or 4)

Model parameters and outputs are created by Water Futures, © Mohammad Mortazavi-Naeini and Tom Russell, made available as open data, licensed under the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL).

Boundaries

/data/boundaries contains catchment areas and water resource zones.

• catchment_areas.geojson
  • e.g. properties: { "id": "ca:Cherwell, Thame and Wye", "name": "Cherwell, Thame and Wye", "region": "EA South East", "area": "West Thames"}
• water_resource_zones.geojson
  • e.g. properties: { "id": "wrz:London", "name": "London", "company": "Thames Water", "popup": "<html content>" }

Boundaries are derived from Water Resource Management Plans.

Water System

/data/system contains water system elements derived from OpenStreetMap, plus a synthetic illustration of groundwater and distribution networks.

• river_thames.geojson
  • e.g. properties: { "name": "River Thames", "popup": "<html content>" }
• system.geojson
  • e.g. properties: { "id": 4, "name": "Beckton desalination plant", "popup": "<html content>", "type": "desalination" }
  • or, for links: { "from": 8, "to": 1, "type": "link" }
• thames_basin_rivers.geojson
  • e.g. properties: { "name": "Lee Navigation", "popup": "<html content>" }

River system and reservoir locations are © OpenStreetMap contributors, open data licensed under the ODbL.

Synthetic groundwater and distribution networks are © Water Futures contributors, also released as open data licensed under the ODbL.