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About the Analysis Features

The Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas allows all users to analyze water risk across the globe using an interactive map and a variety of water risk indicators. To use this module, you can select the indicators of interest and add your locations using the map or by entering your addresses or coordinates. You can also easily export all indicators into a downloadable file.

This tutorial will guide you through adding locations, selecting water risk indicators, exporting your results, and interpreting the data.

Add Locations

Accurately identify specific geographic areas of interest for analysis, either through interactive map selection or by entering address/coordinates.

Click Map

Zoom in on the map and click on your point(s) of interest. You can use the location controls for better accuracy. 

GIF of analysis 1.

Entering Addresses

You can search by full address, decimal degrees, or DMS coordinates:

  • Search a location: enter a full address, including city, state/province, and country. It will be automatically added to a table showing the results of the overall water risk.
  • Decimal degrees: enter the latitude (Y) and longitude (X) values of your location. Values for the latitude should be between -90 and 90 and values for the longitude should be between -180 and 180.
  • Degrees-Minutes-Seconds (DMS): input coordinates specifying the degrees, minutes, and seconds values, followed by their respective directional indicators (North/South for latitude and East/West for longitude).

Import File

This option allows you to import multiple addresses at once. This can save time if you need to analyze water risk for many locations. Follow our templates to add up to 500 addresses per file. See below the supported file formats and templates.

Addresses
  • Your file should only contain three columns: ID, location name, and address.
  • Do not change the ID order, it must always follow the 1, 2, 3 (…) format.
  • If your address components (street name, city, county) are in different columns, you should merge them into a single column.
  • Specify addresses following the format used by the national postal service of the country concerned.
  • Avoid including unnecessary details like business names or floor numbers.
  • Use the street number of a premise in preference to the building name where possible.
  • Do not provide 'hints' such as nearby landmarks.

Templates:

Decimal Coordinates (latitude and longitude)
  • Your file should only contain four columns: ID, location name, latitude, and longitude.
  • Latitude values range from -90 to 90, longitude values from -180 to 180.
  • Do not change the ID order, it must always follow the 1, 2, 3 (…) format.

Templates:

GIF of analysis 2.

Select a Water Risk Indicator

Once your locations are visible on the tool, you can select choose the relevant water risk indicators that align with your specific research objectives. These indicators encompass a wide range of water stress and scarcity factors, such as:

  • Type of indicator: overall water risk, physical risks quantity, physical risks quality, regulatory and reputational risk, or by single indicators.
  • Temporal resolutions: annual and monthly (depending on the temporal resolution selected, different indicators will be available).
  • Timeframe: 2030, 2050, and 2080 based on the latest CMIP6 climate data.
  • Future scenarios: pessimistic, business as usual, and optimistic, based on the median of the 5 Global Circulation Models for each scenario.

Export Results

Download your analysis findings in CSV and GPKG formats for further manipulation and integration into external workflows.

  • Baseline exports: the tool will export all indicators available for the temporal resolution you select.
  • Annual: all indicators will be downloaded, including data available for custom weightings (271 columns).
  • Monthly: all indicators will be downloaded for the given month (28 columns).
  • Future exports: the tool will export all indicators available for the three available timeframes and scenarios (123 columns in total). 

Read the Exported Results

Access our Aqueduct 4.0 Public Documentation to understand the metadata and FAQ for the exported data and effectively interpret the water risk information presented.

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