Working prototype by Stoa Works — a concept for Indiana's On-line Water Data Portal, not the official State site.
Indiana WaterData Portal · concept

Ask Indiana Water

Type a question in plain language. Answers come straight from the portal's official data — gages, basins, counties, datasets — with the sources shown below.

Answers are generated from the portal's bundled official data, not a chatbot. For residents this is simply better search with a clear answer on top — conventional search and source links remain underneath.

What you can ask

Four kinds of questions, all answered from official data

Rivers & streamflow

Live conditions on a named water

“What's the flow on the White River?” · “Which counties have the most gages?”

Backed by ~200 USGS streamgages, refreshed every 15–60 minutes.

Counties

Your county's water at a glance

“Groundwater in Marion County” · “Streamgages in Allen County”

Every gage and well joined to its county across all 92.

Watersheds

Conditions by sub-basin

“Upper White watershed” · “Which sub-basin has the highest flow?”

Aggregated to 33 HUC8 watershed sub-basins statewide.

Data & how-to

Finding and using the data

“How do I download data?” · “What is a sub-basin?”

Plain-language help drawn from the portal's own pages and glossary.

What's behind the answers

Grounded in the portal's real corpus

Every answer is retrieved only from this bundled official data — no outside web, no invented records — and shows its sources right below it.

~200
USGS streamgages with live flow & gage height
90+
Groundwater monitoring wells, depth-to-water
92
Counties, each joined to its gages & wells
33
Watershed sub-basins (HUC8) for spatial answers