The water utilities and basins section of the Water and Food Systems subsite covers drinking-water and wastewater utilities, basin authorities and irrigation operators: how their water-safety, asset, drought and flood records are identified and verified, and how they crosswalk to the WHO drinking-water and water-safety-plan guidance and the transboundary water instruments. Every artifact of the area carries a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier), which identifies and never certifies.
Context entry PROPOSED for the Nexus Standards registry.
NXS-STD-DC-000003Nexus Standards (2026). Water utilities and basins: area brief, Water and Food Systems (PROPOSED). https://nexustandards.com/water-food/water-utilities-sector-standards/ · UNI NXS-STD-DC-000003. Last reviewed 2026-10-17.
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The sectors and industries section of Water and Food Systems. Scope as the area context entry states it (PROPOSED).
In scope 5
Out of scope 3
Jurisdictions No jurisdiction note is recorded for this area yet; jurisdiction narrows what applies and never implies that a Nexus profile satisfies a law.
Relations are register entries (NS-14), never conformance or equivalence statements; hover or focus a relation for its meaning. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here.
crosswalk2
Water safety plan manual, second editionWorld Health Organization and International Water Associationproposed register rowMethodology for assessing the water-food-energy-ecosystems nexus in transboundary basinsUNECE (Water Convention) with partners including FAOregister · unece-wefe-nexus-methodologyThe Nexus Standards the area context entry lists; the registry row lists NS-0, NS-3, NS-9, NS-10, NS-11. Every one is proposed or specified; none is adopted by an authority.
Status proposed · 12 rules stated. Read NS-0 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 0 rules stated. Read NS-3 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 5 rules stated. Read NS-9 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 7 rules stated. Read NS-10 · The rules for this area
Status proposed · 6 rules stated. Read NS-11 · The rules for this area
Closed or paywalled standards appear by name and link only; any compatibility profile of one is built on simulated data and kept on protected pages until an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.
The working group may name closed standards later; they would be listed here by name and link only.
Hazards and threats 5
Sectors 1
Each coupling names the mechanism that links this area to another; select a card on the canvas to trace it. Mechanisms are stated in the context bank (PROPOSED).
Fig.RUNNING marks the area you are reading; DONE an area in the same subsite, QUEUED an area elsewhere and GATE a subsite reached. Tags give reading order only, never a status. Design, not a record.
Sources the area reads or proposes. Delivery follows GRIx first; a source is shown live only after an owner decision admits it for public pages.
No legal register row admits any of these sources for live display on public pages yet, so nothing is read from them here. A register row that exists records the source for the governed GRIx path; admission for public pages is a separate owner decision.
Aqueduct 4.0 Water Risk Atlaspending admission
World Resources Institute · versioned releases
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
GloFAS global flood forecastspending admission
Copernicus Emergency Management Service · daily
CEMS-Floods datasets licence
GRIx governed readregister row exists
World Development Indicatorspending admission
World Bank · annual with quarterly updates
CC BY 4.0
GRIx governed readregister row exists
AQUASTATpending admission
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations · annual
CC BY 4.0 under the FAO Statistical Database Terms of Use
build-time snapshotproposed register row
Incident, outage and water-balance records with record UNIs and correction history become readable as evidence for the GCRI Canada pipeline, which applies its own admissibility rules.
A utility or basin authority that publishes its water-safety-plan clauses and continuous attestations gives GRF a record trail it may consider; nothing is recognised by adoption.
Resilience investments in networks and storage can carry verified service-continuity baselines into a GRA capital-readiness assessment, decided by GRA alone.
Each institution decides under its own rules what it reads as evidence; no pathway is an approval, a readiness statement or investment advice.
Pick a sector, hazard family, capability and artifact type; the registry routes the standards and says why.
Pending admissionVersion and feed state per standard; every row reads source feed pending admission until a register row admits a feed.
Today · from the registryTest suites, conformance statements and attestations per standard; no attestation is recorded yet, and none would certify.
A console computes from the registry and shows its reasons; it never decides, approves or certifies.
Indicator names and codes as their stewards publish them; values appear only from a governed GRIx source, never typed into a page.
Profile utility incident, asset-continuity and basin allocation records and crosswalk them to WHO water-safety guidance and transboundary water instruments.
No working group is chartered yet; a community may charter this one under NS-13 through a docket.
This area has a row in registry/subsites.yaml (status planned), so it carries five depth pages and the register crosswalk of its domains.
The rules of each listed standard, read through the specification reader.
Depth · CrosswalkEvery register entry in the area's domains, by relation, with the crosswalk graph.
Depth · Records and schemasScope, record, schema explorer and how a UNI resolves.
Depth · ConformanceClauses, evidence and attestations; no step is a certification.
Depth · ReadinessThe area beside the three pathways, as a matrix.
5 Nexus Standards · 2 domains · 20 external standards · 14 issuing bodies · 1 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.
Crosswalk graph42 nodes and 54 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.
The registry holds no geography for the area itself: areas are not places. The one geography it implies is where the bodies that issue the area's external standards sit.
| Body | Seat | Register entries |
|---|---|---|
| ISO/TC 224 | Geneva, Switzerland | 4 |
| IEC TC 65 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 268 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| ISO/TC 299 | Geneva, Switzerland | 2 |
| European Parliament and Council | Brussels, Belgium | 1 |
| IEC TC 65 with ISA (ISA/IEC 62443) | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| IEEE | Piscataway, New Jersey, United States | 1 |
| ISO/TC 251 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ISO/TC 59/SC 13 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ITU-R | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| ITU-T SG15 | Geneva, Switzerland | 1 |
| UNECE (Water Convention) with partners including FAO | Rome, Italy | 1 |
1 subsites: no geography in the registry (areas, not places) · 2 consumers: repositories, no geography · 19 Nexus Standards: documents, no geography · 2 issuing bodies without a fixed public seat, listed not drawn: International Civil Aviation Organization; International Maritime Organization · Programme regions of the ecosystem coverage register: named, not drawn (no coordinates in the registry)
Standards globe12 issuing bodies with a public seat, 20 register entries, H3 cells at resolutions 1 to 4. Seats are city coordinates, not registry fields; subsites, consumers and standards have no geography, so none is drawn. Plate carrée still map; globe with script.
| Area on the sites | Artifact kinds | Governing standards | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water (GCRI Canada field gateway; GRF and GRA counterparts) | data, dataset, report, map, documentation | NS-1, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-4, NS-5 | therisk.global/fields/water/ |
From the ecosystem coverage register: what the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) sites publish on this area, as claimed there and not evaluated here.
Peer-reviewed sources and published statistics on the publishers' own domains, as the context entry cites them.
Plain links to the faculty pages of Risk Academy; no course, credential, recognition or endorsement is implied.
Risk Academy disciplines that teach Water utilities and basins, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.
Propose a change, join the working group or name a source. Area entries are PROPOSED content for the Nexus Standards registry; a UNI identifies and never certifies, and nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.
Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.