Natural and managed components of the water-budget for 2010 for 43 HUC10s in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin, Georgia, U.S.
A simple water budget includes precipitation, streamflow, change in storage, evapotranspiration, and residuals: P=Q + ET + ΔS + e. It is essential to include the managed component (i.e., the “human” component) to close the water budget and reduce the magnitude of the residuals from “natural” water budgets. Some of the …