{"capabilities":"The UK Water Resources Portal is a web-based map data explorer to monitor the UK hydrological situation in (near) real-time at a range of spatial scales.   Data are available in their raw format (e.g. millimetres for rainfall, metres cubed per second for river flows etc.) and standardised indices.","description":"The purpose of the UK Water Resources Portal is to bring together rainfall, river flow, soil moisture and groundwater data in one place, and showcase the use of live river flow data from the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency as well as COSMOS-UK soil moisture data.","fundingSources":"The UK Water Resources Portal was primarily developed in the ENDOWS project (Engaging diverse stakeholders and publics with outputs from the UK Drought and Water Scarcity Programme), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/L01016X/1. Additional funding was provided by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability.","id":"1b6ce268-f45b-490c-8117-c0ce30e807b5","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"data","description":"Environmental data and information","infrastructureClass":"Digital infrastructures","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/data"},"infrastructureChallenge":[{"value":"Climate change: mitigation"},{"value":"Climate change: adaptation"}],"infrastructureScale":"UK","lifecycle":"The UK Water Resources Portal has replaced, and is a development of, the UK Drought Portal. The UK Drought Portal was updated each month between June 2017 and August 2022, showing a commonly used drought index — the Precipitation Index.","metadataDate":"2025-04-11T12:08:58","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://ukwrp.ceh.ac.uk","function":"website","type":"OTHER"}],"owners":[{"displayName":"Jamie Hannaford","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"owner","email":"enquiries@ceh.ac.uk","address":{"city":"Wallingford"},"fullName":"Jamie Hannaford"}],"partners":"NRFA river flow and BGS groundwater level data provided by the Environment Agency (for England), Natural Resources Wales, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Infrastructure - Rivers in Northern Ireland. COSMOS-UK from UKCEH. Rainfall data from the Met Office","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1b6ce268-f45b-490c-8117-c0ce30e807b5"}],"scienceArea":"Water Resources","title":"UK Water Resources Portal","type":"infrastructureRecord","uniqueness":"The UKWRP was the first tool developed to allow interactive mapping and plotting of near-real time hydrological data for the UK, and the first to exploit the EA's APIs and the first to bring all these datasets together (including COSMOS-UK). ","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1b6ce268-f45b-490c-8117-c0ce30e807b5","users":["Very broad - known uptake among EA/SEPA/NRW/DFI-Rivers; Water companies; energy; farmeres/growers. Planners and General public."]}