Note: This version of the Drought Impact Reporter is being phased out. Please update your bookmarks to go.unl.edu/dirdash.
The National Drought Mitigation Center launched the Drought Impact Reporter (DIR) in July 2005 as the nation’s first comprehensive database of drought impacts. A major update, released in fall 2011, collects and displays more types of information, providing researchers and interested members of the public with more context and detail, as well as more readily summarized information. The Hawaii-focused Drought Impact Reporter was released in January 2012.
You can subscribe to the Hawaii Drought Impacts RSS feed – http://moderator.droughtreporter.unl.edu/rssfeed/HI – or to the national drought impacts feed -- http://moderator.droughtreporter.unl.edu/rssfeed/ -- to see impacts as they are created, using whatever RSS feed reader you prefer. Subscribe to other state feeds by substituting the state's two-letter postal abbreviation for HI in the URL above.
The Drought Impact Reporter was developed with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency.
The Hawaii version of the Drought Impact Reporter was developed under a contract with the State of Hawaii's Commission on Water Resource Management.
If you have questions or suggestions related to technical aspects of the Drought Impact Reporter, please email DIRinfo@unl.edu.
If you have questions related to how the State of Hawaii uses information submitted to the Drought Impact Reporter, please email Neal Fujii, Commission on Water Resource Management, Neal.D.Fujii@hawaii.gov.