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Water risk and water security
Water risk foundations
Water risk is the chance that too little, too much or unsafe water, or the failure of the services and institutions that manage it, harms people, ecosystems and economies. This foundational guide…
Water Nexus
Water Nexus is not a conventional water association, conference series, technology marketplace, or project-finance platform. It is a structured Nexus Ecosystem platform for making water risks, projects, technologies, institutions, data, and system…
Water Nexus
Digital water is not a dashboard, software layer, or visualization exercise. A serious digital water system is an integrated technical architecture for sensing, telemetry, operational technology, data governance, modeling, cybersecurity, observability, evidence…
Water Nexus
Water finance-readiness is not the same as financing. It does not mean that a project is bankable, investable, insurable, approved, certified, rated, endorsed, or ready for procurement. It means the project has…
Water Nexus
Water security begins upstream. Treatment plants, reservoirs, pumps, pipes, meters, stormwater networks, reuse systems, and utility operations are essential, but they depend on the condition of watersheds, aquifers, wetlands, forests, soils, floodplains,…
Water Nexus
Digital water is becoming one of the most important transformation frontiers in the water sector. Utilities, public authorities, infrastructure operators, basin organizations, industrial water users, agricultural actors, technology providers, researchers, insurers, and…
Water Nexus
Wastewater is one of the most important but underleveraged foundations of modern water resilience. It sits at the intersection of public health, sanitation, environmental protection, urban growth, industrial continuity, water quality, energy…
Water Nexus
Water quality is one of the most consequential interfaces between hydrology, infrastructure, public health, governance, and public trust. It is not only a technical measure of chemical, physical, biological, or radiological parameters.…
Water Nexus
Water quality is one of the most consequential interfaces between hydrology, infrastructure, public health, governance, and public trust. It is not only a technical measure of chemical, physical, biological, or radiological parameters.…
Water Nexus
Flood risk is one of the most visible forms of water-system failure, but it is rarely only a flood problem. Flooding exposes the relationship between hydrology, land use, drainage infrastructure, wastewater systems,…