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Events and technical dialogues

Events and technical dialogues

Confirmed events in Water Nexus, each with its date, organizer, format and terms. Only scheduled, confirmed activities are listed.

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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
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Water, Climate and hazards, Critical infrastructure
Canvas · call to recordDesign, not a record
Events and technical dialogues: a convening from call to recordA call for sessions is issued; proposals are selected against criteria; the programme is built with balance; the convening runs; the record is published and follow-up tracked. Design of the process, not a record of a run.

Fig.How an event goes from a call for sessions to its record. Design, not a schedule.

01In brief

The short answer.

Water Nexus events are confirmed technical dialogues, workshops and sessions on water, climate and hazards, and critical infrastructure, each listed with its date, organizer, format and terms. Only scheduled, confirmed activities appear, and a planned event is never shown as held. Sessions may run under the Chatham House Rule, and outcome notes are published only with participants' consent.

02Geography

Water now in the Nile Basin.

For events and technical dialogues, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, flood water, night lights and true-colour imagery with relief in 3D, framed on the Nile Basin; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.

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Layers 4

Water now, for this page

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NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth

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For events and technical dialogues, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, flood water, night lights and true-colour imagery with relief in 3D, framed on the Nile Basin; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.

Data: NASA GIBS · ASTER GDEM · Blue Marble · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Natural Earth · NASA EONET · GDACS · Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2ASources and licences

  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • We acknowledge the use of imagery provided by services from NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS), part of NASA's Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). CC BY 4.0
  • VIIRS near-real-time products (flood, land surface temperature, snow cover, corrected reflectance), NASA LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • VIIRS Black Marble night-time lights, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; distributed by the NASA Level-1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • NASA Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS), VIIRS 375 m active fire product, NASA LANCE; vector tiles via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • MODIS land products (vegetation indices, gross primary production, land cover), NASA LP DAAC and LANCE; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • ASTER GDEM is a product of METI and NASA (ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model V003, NASA LP DAAC); imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com. Public domain
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via NASA GIBS (coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names). Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). ODbL
  • Blue Marble, NASA Earth Observatory; imagery via NASA GIBS. Colours redrawn from the published colour map; values averaged into H3 cells where shown (modified). NASA open data
  • Context on the globe and flat map: coastlines, boundaries, roads and place names from NASA GIBS reference layers (OpenStreetMap data, ODbL, © OpenStreetMap contributors); Blue Marble imagery as an optional base; 3D terrain and the elevation read-out from the ASTER GDEM elevation colour index (5 m to 200 m classes, exaggerated for legibility). Boundaries are drawn as published and imply no position on any territory.
  • Globe: MapLibre GL JS 6.9.1, BSD-3-Clause, © MapLibre contributors.
  • Live: NASA EONET Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Live: GDACS (EC JRC / UN OCHA) Events are indicative, not official warnings.
  • Observed (EO): Copernicus Sentinel-2 L2A (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026), Microsoft Planetary Computer
  • Optional layers (35 sources in the layer list: live, forecast, observed and context) print their provider credit on the map and here when switched on; forecasts are model output and derived indices are estimates.

Layers and dates

  • Population density, 2020: Population: CIESIN, Columbia University, Gridded Population of the World v4.11 (2018), NASA SEDAC, CC BY 4.0 · static
  • Flood water, 3-day composite: VIIRS Global Flood Product, NASA LANCE · 14 Oct 2026
  • Night-time lights, daily: VIIRS Black Marble (VNP46A2), NASA LAADS DAAC · 12 Oct 2026
  • True colour: VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance, NASA LANCE · 13 Oct 2026
  • Active fires and thermal anomalies, last day: VIIRS NOAA-20 375 m (FIRMS), NASA LANCE FIRMS · 13 Oct 2026
  • Land cover type (IGBP), yearly: MODIS Terra and Aqua land cover (MCD12Q1), NASA LP DAAC · 2024

03How it works

Events and technical dialogues in Water Nexus.

  • Each entry shows its scope, host or owner, and terms.
  • Participation follows published rules, applied equally.
  • Taking part gives no authority or influence over findings.
04Formats

Technical dialogues that suit water questions.

  • Basin data clinics: hydrological services and researchers reconcile records for one basin.
  • Method comparisons: several models run on the same basin and their differences discussed.
  • Drought tabletop sessions: decision-holders walk through restriction stages with forecast material.

Each event is listed with its date, organiser and terms only once confirmed.

05Next step

Register your interest.

Write to contact@therisk.global. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.

06Key terms

Terms used on this page.

Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.

TermDefinition
Chatham House RuleA rule under which participants may use information received but may not reveal the identity or affiliation of speakers.
Code of conductA written set of standards for how members, staff or participants behave, with a route for complaints and a stated process for handling them.
Return periodThe average interval between events of a given size, equal to the inverse of the annual exceedance probability; a one-in-a-hundred-year flood has a one in a hundred chance of being exceeded in any year.
07Sources

Where this page's references lead.

The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

08Questions

Questions and answers.

When are entries added?
When their hosting, terms and moderation are confirmed.
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