Building a Mississippi River Basin Drought & Water Dashboard

To improve access and usability of drought and water information across the Mississippi River Basin, NOAA, in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is developing a public-facing Mississippi River Basin Drought and Water Dashboard. This online platform, hosted on the U.S. Drought Portal (drought.gov) and modeled after the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin Drought & Water Dashboard, will include a suite of curated and customized information and tools to provide drought information and support decision-making across the Mississippi Valley. This includes real-time information with easy to understand and downloadable graphics that span historical, current, and future conditions.

This Dashboard will be useful to a broad range of users, from water managers to the general public. The Dashboard will also provide context to understand the nature of drought and water management in the river and support public education about drought impacts in the basin. 

For more information, view the research profile for this project or contact Meredith Muth (meredith.f.muth@noaa.gov).