Aqueduct.
Aqueduct data and insights have been featured in major media outlets supporting detailed story-telling on water stress sound the globe, including the Economist, Bloomberg Businessweek, the New York Times, The Washington Post and Vox’s Netflix show Explained.
Highest water stress of all time.
25 countries housing ¼ of the global population face extreme water stress every year, expected to increase by 1 billion more people in 2050.
Water scarcity #1 driver of public health crisis.
Most global health crises are linked to water; floods, droughts and water-borne diseases. Over half the world are without adequate sanitation services.
Water means basic human survival.
2 billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. Agricultural, including for growing essential food, uses 70% of the world’s freshwater.
To deliver data in the fastest, most accurate way, we custom built a microservice that allows the user to select or upload points of interest and receive back the relevant information from the risk model developed by WRI. The service is built on top of CARTO, the Resource Watch API and Google’s Geocoder.
