GCRI · Water Nexus
Mandate and publisher
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.
- STEM methods
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- Canonical methods this field applies
- Topics
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- Subject pages in the field
- Counterparts
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- Platforms in shared fields across the network
- Report series
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- Reports series it contributes to
Mandate and publisher in four parts.
The science of water as a connected system.
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.
Scope
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.
Who takes part
Basin scientists, water utilities, municipal engineers, water agencies and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) researchers.
What it is designed to publish
Watershed research briefs, public-safe basin maps and utility resilience case studies.
Who is responsible.
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) publishes Water Nexus and answers for its content. GCRI Canada is the lead contracting organisation.
- Editorial responsibility sits with the platform’s subject editors, who review each topic page and output before release.
- Water Nexus is the steward of the STEM Commons pages for hydrology and water science and water and environmental engineering, which other platforms rely on.
- Corrections and concerns go through the corrections route, and the platform’s rights and status are set out on trust, rights and status.
What Water Nexus does not do.
- It does not regulate water services, set drinking water standards or allocate water rights.
- It does not certify, license, rank or approve any utility, product, project or institution.
- It is not an emergency or incident service, and it issues no operational warnings.
- Taking part, sponsoring or hosting gives no authority over findings.
- Governance questions are convened at The Global Risks Forum (GRF), for example through Climate and Nature Governance; financial-sector questions belong with The Global Risks Alliance (GRA).
Established; open for information and enquiries.
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.
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Now
Information and enquiries. Write to the contact form or see contact the specialist team.
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As records are confirmed
Research briefs, maps and case studies appear on publications with their editorial status.
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When opened
Working groups, data contributions and project participation, each with written terms.
Questions and answers.
Is Water Nexus a separate organisation?
Does Water Nexus give advice to utilities?
Who can I contact about the platform?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. 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.
Legal documents.
Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.