Aqueduct Global Water Risk Atlas (WRI)

The Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas is an interactive global water risk assessment and mapping tool developed by the World Resources Institute. The platform enables companies, governments, investors, researchers, and communities to assess and visualise current and future water-related risks worldwide, including water stress, drought, flooding, and water supply variability. Using peer-reviewed methodologies and open datasets, the tool provides high-resolution, customisable maps and indicators to support climate risk assessment, water management, resilience planning, sustainability reporting, and adaptation decision-making.

Provides a globally consistent way to compare water-related risks across locations, which is particularly useful for organisations managing activities, investments or supply chains in several countries. By bringing water stress, drought, flooding and variability into a common framework, it helps users identify priority areas and start water-resilience discussions. Its global consistency is a major strength, but local decisions should be supported by more detailed information because the Atlas does not fully capture local water transfers or validate every indicator at local scale.

• Global water-risk screening by governments, companies, investors, researchers and communities.
• Cross-country and river-basin comparison of water stress, drought, flooding and supply variability.
• Water-risk analysis for agriculture, business, energy, finance, disaster-risk reduction and land-use planning.
• Global assessments at HydroBASINS Level 6, state and WHYMAP aquifer scales.
• Climate-resilience and sustainability analysis using World Resources Institute Aqueduct datasets.