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INFOGRAPHIC: 4 Ways to Make Money in Land Restoration

  • Forests
  • restoration
father with daughter in flower field
  • Forests
  • restoration
Insights

Ranking the World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries in 2040

  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • data
  • climate change
  • water risk
14 of the 33 likely most water stressed countries in 2040 are in the Middle East. (Dubai, UAE) Photo by Jason Mrachina/Flickr.
  • Freshwater
  • Aqueduct
  • data
  • climate change
  • water risk

Intelligent Imagining: Scenarios to Manage Water as the Climate Changes

  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
A watershed in the Central American Dryland Corridor, a protected area meant to foster biodiversity and sustainable development, in Trifinio, Guatemala. Photo Credit: Paul Reig/WRI
  • Freshwater
  • Business
  • Aqueduct
  • Climate Resilience
  • Climate
  • climate change
Insights
How does the world feed more than 9 billion people in the year 2050 in a manner that not only advances economic development but also reduces agriculture’s impact on the environment? Photo Credit: UN/Flickr
  • Food
  • agriculture

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Data

Aqueduct Global Maps 2.0

  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • Aqueduct
  • Freshwater
  • water risk
  • Aqueduct
Data

Coastal Eutrophic and Hypoxic Areas of Africa

  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
  • hypoxia
  • Water Quality
  • water pollution
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
  • hypoxia
  • Water Quality
  • water pollution
Data

Coastal Eutrophic and Hypoxic Areas of Asia

  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
  • hypoxia
  • Water Quality
  • water pollution
  • Ocean
  • Freshwater
  • hypoxia
  • Water Quality
  • water pollution