I was excited to see an email in my inbox this morning announcing the launch of the World Resources Institute online water risk map tool.
It has been encouraging to see the increasing profile of water risk over the past few years, particularly in the corporate world, and I thought I would do a listing post with four amazing online resources. Links at the bottom of the post.
- The WRI map, Aqueduct, has a heap of data behind it and quite an amazing interface to allow the easy extraction of meaningful data. A non-technical planning executive in a large multinational firm could plug in the locations of 20 production facilities and get a decent overview of the basin level l water risk profile of those facilities inside an hour, which is quite a staggering achievement.Of course water risk cannot be fully quantified for a specific facility at basin level, but it is a very good start.
- Other great ways to understanding water risk are by following the Circle of Blue, an amazing source of water risk related journalism, which does not just set the bar for journalism related to water, but offers a much higher quality of reporting than you will find in all but a few newspapers or websites.
- China Water Risk is an investment industry sponsored site raising the profile of the critical state of water in China.
- Finally Waterfootprint.org is a great resource for understanding the water impact of your actions, as an individual or a corporation.
World Resources Institute – Aqueduct
