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Aqueduct Floods

WRI's Aqueduct team is part of the Freshwater Program and manages a suite of tools that use open-source, peer reviewed data to map water risks such as floods, droughts and stress. Beyond the tools, the Aqueduct team works one-on-one with companies, governments and research partners through the Aqueduct Alliance to help advance best practices in water resource management and enable sustainable growth in a water-constrained world.

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The downloadable hazard maps were updated on October 20, 2020 to fix a bias-correction error in the data. The update only impacts the riverine maps. If you downloaded hazard maps prior to October 20, 2020, we recommend you redownload the data.

Aqueduct Floods Hazard Maps, Version 2.0

Riverine flood hazard from GFDL-ESM2M model; Year 2050; Business as Usual scenario; 250 year return period

Riverine flood map layer

Flood inundation depth maps that support the Aqueduct Floods online tool. This dataset provides estimations of inundation depth in meters for riverine and coastal floods under both current baseline conditions and future projections in 2030, 2050, and 2080 at several levels of flood intensity return periods (recurrence intervals).