The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Water Nexus is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). Its mandate is the science of interdependent water systems: watersheds and aquifers, water services and the health, energy, food and economic resilience that depend on them. This page sets out who is responsible for the platform, what it is designed to do, the limits of its role and its current operating state.
GCRI · Established · service level R0
Water Nexus is a specialist platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation for water, climate and hazards, and critical infrastructure. Its mandate covers the interdependence of water services, watersheds, human health, energy, food and economic resilience. GCRI publishes it, answers for its content and takes no decision on anyone's behalf. It is established and works at service level R0, information and enquiries.
Fig.How the platform is governed, from its mandate to the authorities who decide. Design, not a record.
The jurisdictions that hold authority over this question: countries, their first-level divisions and capitals, shown for Asia as an example geography for this subject.
Water Nexus exists to make evidence about water systems usable and checkable by the people who manage them, and to show where that evidence stops.
Water, with its links to climate and hazards and to critical infrastructure: catchments, groundwater, extremes, drinking water and sanitation, utilities, shared basins, energy and food.
Basin scientists, water utilities, municipal engineers, water agencies and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) researchers.
Watershed research briefs, public-safe basin maps and utility resilience case studies.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes Water Nexus and answers for its content. GCRI works across Canada and the United States.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
| Conflict of interest | A situation in which financial, professional or personal interests could compromise, or appear to compromise, judgement in research or review. |
| Water security | A population's capacity to keep reliable access to enough water of acceptable quality for health, livelihoods and production, and to be protected from water-related disasters and pollution. |
| Water stress | Freshwater withdrawn by all sectors as a share of the renewable freshwater available once environmental flow requirements are met; SDG indicator 6.4.2 measures it. |
Water Nexus is an established platform with a published site. Its existing activity is confirmed against records before it is listed here, and new services open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
Information and enquiries. Write to contact@therisk.global or see contact the specialist team.
Research briefs, maps and case studies appear on publications with their editorial status.
Working groups, data contributions and project participation, each with written terms.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.