conciseVerbosity
A personal workshop for California water data.
Live dashboards, media analysis, and AI-assisted research tools, built and maintained as a private project for a small circle of subscribers.
A private project, built for the work
conciseVerbosity is a personal site. The dashboards here draw on terabytes of California water and agriculture data, spanning on-farm water use efficiency to international trade, and use a customized set of multiplexed AI agents to process everything from media coverage to streamflow records. The tools exist because I use them daily; access for some tools is limited, and the full dashboards are fully subscribed at present.
Nothing here is a commercial product. It is a working laboratory: releases change, modules go offline for rebuilds, and features appear when they are ready. Please excuse the mess.
Brandon Souza
Agriculture, Water, and Technology nerd. Chief Operating Officer of the California Farm Water Coalition, with dual background in technology and agriculture. With more than 20 years in California water, including serving as Executive Director of the California Irrigation Institute, and Assistant Executive Director of the AWMC. My experience runs from regulation development to on-farm water efficiency.
conciseVerbosity is a personal project; the views and tools here are independent and unaffiliated with the organizations I serve.
CA Water Infrastructure Dashboards · LITE Edition
The free tier, updated continuously. A small selection my most frequently viewed data feeds.
Infrastructure Summary
Water Year Type
Allocations
Briefings
Short, sourced comparisons and explainers for anyone who has to brief a board, an agency, an editor, or a legislator. Each one is a PDF you can forward or print, with every figure tied to its source and an as-of date.
Healthy Rivers and Landscapes: the 2022 MOU versus the August 2026 State Water Board final draft
The final draft keeps the flow volumes, habitat acreages, and eight-year term the 2022 term sheet proposed, and converts the program from a negotiated agreement into plan conditions. Five changes account for most of the distance: the baseline, the specified regulatory alternative, governance, exit terms, and funding. Provision by provision, with the Board's own modeling beside each change and how both sides have characterized it.
Comments are due September 18; adoption is scheduled for October 28 and 29.
Open the briefing (PDF)What a briefing is here
A comparison or explainer written in the vocabulary of the proceeding it covers, so a reader can cite it, forward it, or brief upward without re-reading the source documents. Sources and dates on every figure.
Resources
If you're a reporter working a water or agriculture story, feel free to get in touch through the email link below. I am glad to help reporters find the number, the history, or the context a story needs, and I can usually pull it quickly. The tools here are a small sampling of the available resources, open to use with no login required.
If you're not a reporter working a water or agriculture story, have a look- then let me know what tools would be useful to your daily work!
Water Per Item
How much water grows one strawberry, one melon, one almond. California versus the global average, per unit.
Open the lookup →Water Fact Sheets
Plain-language fact sheets for 98 California crops, with gallons-per-serving translated into relatable volumes.
Browse the sheets →Groundwater Map
Every groundwater sustainability agency and basin in the state, with SGMA priority coloring and context layers.
Explore the map →Delta Storage Dashboard
Delta surplus outflow beyond regulatory requirements against pumping capacity and reservoir storage: how much abundant water could have been stored.
See the numbers →Water Footprint Tools
A daily food tracker, recipe calculator, crop lookup, and import scenarios, built on published footprint data.
Run a scenario →
