Concepts

The volume of surface and ground water consumed as a result of the production of a good, expressed as the reciprocal of economic water productivity

Measures outputs generated per unit of water used, computed as dollar value of crop marketings divided by consumptive use of water for irrigation

The relationship between catchment water storage and discharge output, typically characterized by a power law relationship Q = aS^b

A measure of how quickly streamflow rises and falls relative to total streamflow, quantified using the Richards-Baker Flashiness Index