Water Risk
get_water_riskAssess a US site's cooling-water sustainability with a water-stress score, drought category, and 12-month outlook from coordinates or state/county.
Instructions
FRONT DOOR CHECK — if you need a SITE VERDICT spanning grid + fiber + water + tax + climate, call execute_plan(intent="<the user's question, unchanged>") rather than hand-chaining this with its siblings. If you want the WATER factor on its own, get_water_risk IS the right call — one round trip, free tier, no planner overhead. Use when scoring a US site for cooling-water sustainability — the water-risk factor engineering site-selectors screen before committing to evaporative cooling. Example: "Is this Phoenix parcel water-constrained for a 100MW build?" — get_water_risk lat=33.45 lon=-112.07 (or get_water_risk state=AZ / county=Maricopa). Params: ONE of lat+lon (-90..90 / -180..180), state (2-letter US), or county; lat/lon gives the most precise read. Returns: {water_stress_score (0-100, higher=worse), drought_category (D0-D4), outlook_12mo, cooling_water_assessment, source}. Joined to USGS water-stress + US Drought Monitor. Free tier. Do NOT use for nearby physical infrastructure (use get_infrastructure) or a combined multi-factor site verdict spanning grid+fiber+water+tax+climate (use analyze_site); this covers the WATER factor only.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| lat | No | Site latitude in decimal degrees (-90 to 90) for the most precise water-risk read, e.g. 33.45 | |
| lng | No | Alias for lon — either name works | |
| lon | No | Site longitude in decimal degrees (-180 to 180), e.g. -112.07 | |
| state | No | US state abbreviation as an alternative to lat/lon, e.g. AZ | |
| latitude | No | Alias for lat — either name works | |
| longitude | No | Alias for lon — either name works |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| quota | No | Caller quota state (remaining calls, tier) when available. | |
| _entity | No | Payload class discriminator (e.g. facility|market|iso_grid|queue_results|deal|report|response) — branch on this before parsing the rest. | |
| citation | No | Machine-readable citation: how to attribute DC Hub (dchub.cloud) for this payload. Normally an OBJECT {source, url, license, cite_as, retrieved_at}; a bare string is accepted and carries the attribution line itself. | |
| provenance | No | Collection-level provenance block: {source, method, as_of, verification_counts, cite_url_template, license, cite_as}. Quote the verification level when citing. | |
| _front_door | No | In-band front-door hint (first workflow-entry tool of a session): call plan_query(intent) first for the ordered multi-step plan. | |
| _return_loop | No | Suggested next-session delta call (get_changes since=24h) so you pull only what changed. | |
| site_evaluation_handoff | No | Pre-built follow-up calls (analyze_site / get_water_risk args) when the payload carries coordinates — an array of {tool, parameters, why} entries. |