Mapping Public Water Management by Harmonizing and Sharing Corporate Water Risk Information

World Resources Institute (WRI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management Sustainability Initiative released a new method to create the first-ever global database of local water management information.  

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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. 

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• Water
• Water Risk Tools
• Integrated Water Management
• Meter Data Collection
• Water Management
• Water Risk
• Water
• Water
• Data & Analysis

2 Comments

1. Interesting. Automated measurement of flow, pressure and quality through IoT devices would also add valuable information not only about water supply coming from public networks, but also of the companies' own water sources, if they allowed researchers to install such devices. Local water utilities seldom supply bigger industrial and commercial water users, at least in my country, Mexico, where they have federal permits to operate their own sources, individually or organized as industrial parks.

2. So interesting notice!