Water Availability Risk

Water availability refers to the physical abundance or lack of freshwater resources, which significantly impact business, such as production/supply chain disruption, higher operating costs, and growth constraints. Water availability is generally calculated as a function of the volume of surface water and groundwater available in a given area.

This indicator has already been calculated in the Water Risk Filter (WRF) and has been integrated into the Biodiversity Risk Filter without changes. The Water Risk Filter risk category availability is a comprehensive and robust metric as it integrates a total of 4 best available and peer-reviewed datasets covering different aspects of availability as well as different modelling approaches: water depletion, baseline water stress, blue water scarcity and groundwater. 

What does very high risk mean for this indicator?
Areas of very high risk are likely to experience very low levels of water availability. 

See the specific risk indicator layers in the WRF methodology for more details.

Technical documentation available at https://riskfilter.org/data-&-methods