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Clear Watershed Boundaries Are Essential for Successful Water Stewardship

  • Freshwater
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
The Mississippi River runs through a city.
  • Freshwater
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
Insights

UN Water Conference 2023: Not Enough Game-changing Commitments

  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
  • floods
  • drought
Girls collect water in Rajasthan, India
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • Water Quality
  • water risk
  • floods
  • drought
Update

WRI's Aqueduct Suite of Tools Has New Enhancements For Your Business

  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
  • Aqueduct
  • Corporate Water Stewardship
  • water risk
  • Aqueduct
Update

ADVISORY: Transforming Transportation 2022: Climate-centered Mobility for a Sustainable Recovery

  • Urban Mobility
  • Health & Road Safety
  • congestion
  • GHG emissions
  • public transit
  • road safety
Two people riding bikes together in masks
  • Urban Mobility
  • Health & Road Safety
  • congestion
  • GHG emissions
  • public transit
  • road safety
Initiatives

Beijing Low-Emission Zone

Roads with buses, cyclists and pedestrians in Beijing.
Research

Carsharing

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
Outcomes

Greener IFC Lending Standards

  • Finance
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Women working in Sri Lankan field
  • Finance
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes
Taku River in British Columbia
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Men in Indian field
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Brazil nut harvesters
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes

Indonesia’s Ambitious Forest Moratorium

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Workers in Indonesian forest
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes
People in city center
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes

A New Open Approach to Resource Management in Gabon

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Forest road in Gabon
  • Top Outcome: 2011