GIScience (Geographic Information Science) utilizes geospatially referenced
data that are available from a variety of sources. The data typically utilized
in groundwater models includes that related to wells, aquifers, surface water,
etc. A geodatabase organizes geospatially referenced data as sets of related
objects. In the groundwater world this relates, for example, wells to the
geologic media in which they reside. A richer understanding of water resources
results when groundwater geodatabase structures are related to other facets
of a water resources system, such as those associated with socio-economics.
This presentation overviews some of the existing repositories of groundwater
data and geodatabase structures, with examples being presented for portion
of the High Plains Aquifer in western Kansas. Groundwater models are constructed
and the results are related to geospatially referenced socioeconomic data.