Mapping public water management by harmonizing and sharing corporate water risk information

Mapping public water management by harmonizing and sharing corporate water risk information [1]

In response to water crises across the globe, data on biophysical conditions associated with water risk have increasingly been collected and understood. However, a complete assessment of water risk also requires an understanding of public water management. Currently there is a lack of global comparable data on public water management, leading to incomplete assessments of risk and suboptimal risk mitigation activities. To fill in that gap in data, this Technical Note proposes the creation of a global comparable geodatabase of public water management indicators to spur tangible improvements in water management. The geodatabase will be populated by crowdsourcing data through the risk assessments of multinational companies that are incentivized to share anonymized public water management as an innovative risk reduction practice.

Publication Date:

01/03/2018

Author(s): Colin Strong [2], Paul Reig [3], Julian Köbel [4], Cindy Noe [5]

Source: World Resources Institute [6]

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