Bringing clarity to complex water rights.
Water rights data is critical for landowners, consultants, and decision-makers across the West—but today, it’s scattered across portals, PDFs, scanned documents, and systems that weren’t built for clarity. WaterWise exists to turn that tangle into something visual, consistent, and understandable.
The problem
Understanding water rights often means jumping between state portals, spreadsheets, GIS tools, and historical documents. Terminology varies, spatial data is hard to visualize, and it’s easy to miss important context like overlapping rights or downstream impacts.
What WaterWise does
WaterWise aggregates authoritative water rights data and presents it on intuitive, map-based views. Places of Use (POUs), Points of Diversion (PODs), ownership, and priority information are tied directly to geography, making it easier to see how rights relate to the land and to each other.
Who it’s built for
Landowners evaluating property, consultants preparing reports, attorneys assessing risk, and analysts doing regional studies. WaterWise is designed for people who need accurate spatial context—without having to be a GIS specialist or spend hours wrangling data.
Grounded in geospatial and hydrology expertise
WaterWise is built by practitioners who work at the intersection of geospatial science, hydrology, and data engineering. The goal is to pair high-quality spatial analysis with a user experience that feels straightforward and practical for real-world decisions.
Where we’re headed
WaterWise is in active development. Over time, the platform will expand to cover more states, add historical and scenario-based tools, integrate property and parcel data, and support workflows tailored to consultants, law offices, and landowners. The long-term goal is simple: if you care about water on a piece of land, WaterWise should be the first place you look.
If you’re interested in using WaterWise or shaping what it becomes, reach out through the contact page or join the waitlist from the homepage. Your feedback helps determine what we build next.