# WaterPulse US Drought Status

> WaterPulse US Drought Status is a paid API for AI agents from waterpulse.theaslangroupllc.com, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns US Drought Monitor drought category breakdown by area, 12-week trend, and agricultural/municipal impact for a given US location.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://waterpulse.theaslangroupllc.com/api/water/drought
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/waterpulse-us-drought-status-c3556df9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aW1awcEdHWDL7iW5ZDVLb

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability waterpulse-us-drought-status-c3556df9
```

Example prompt: What's the current drought status for Kansas — give me the breakdown by drought category, the 12-week trend, and how it's affecting agricultural water users?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official US Drought Monitor drought severity categories (D0–D4) with area percentages, trend data over 12 weeks, and explicit agricultural/municipal impact context — ideal for ag-traders, crop analysts, water utilities, or commodity risk models that need structured drought intelligence rather than raw NDVI or precipitation anomaly data.

## Known failure modes

- Location not recognized or outside the US — returns 400 or empty result
- US Drought Monitor data not yet updated for current week — may return prior week's data
- County or sub-county granularity not available for all regions
- Network or upstream data source outage returns 503
- Invalid coordinate format returns 422

## How this service works

US drought status for water and ag-trader agents. Returns drought category breakdown by area from the US Drought Monitor, a 12-week trend, and agricultural/municipal impact.

## Output

Returns a structured breakdown of drought categories (D0–D4) by percentage of area affected, a 12-week historical trend showing whether conditions are improving or deteriorating, and qualitative/quantitative assessments of agricultural (crop and livestock) and municipal water impacts for the queried US location.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | ja | zh | ko | pt | ar (default: en)"
      },
      "state": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Two-letter US state code — e.g. TX | CA | NM | AZ (omit for national)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "trend": "Worsening — D3/D4 combined coverage increased from 8% to 17% over 12 weeks.",
  "outlook": "3-month outlook (NOAA CPC): 50-70% probability of continued drought in Southwest Texas.",
  "query_summary": {
   "state": "TX",
   "period": "last 12 weeks",
   "data_source": "US Drought Monitor"
  },
  "current_drought": {
   "date": "2026-06-03",
   "none_pct": 12,
   "D2_severe_pct": 25,
   "D3_extreme_pct": 12,
   "in_drought_pct": 88,
   "D1_moderate_pct": 28,
   "D4_exceptional_pct": 5,
   "D0_abnormally_dry_pct": 18
  },
  "impact_assessment": {
   "wildfire": "Extreme fire danger across trans-Pecos and Rolling Plains; KEETCH-BYRAM drought index above 700 in 8 counties.",
   "municipal": "Stage 2 water restrictions in 42 municipalities. San Antonio Water System at 61% reservoir capacity.",
   "agriculture": "Pasture conditions rated poor to very poor across 65% of state. Winter wheat harvest severely reduced. Livestock water shortages reported in West Texas."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/waterpulse-us-drought-status-c3556df9/health.json
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