Water Security Risk Index<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nClimate change and a rising world population will stress water supplies in the coming decades for everything from farming to industry. Water security risks identified by the report, including shifts in monsoon rains, melting of glaciers, hydropower dams or more irrigation, could disrupt supplies or cause cross-border conflicts. The report also emphasizes that water stress is not just in poor countries. The United States ranked 104 out of the 165 countries. Other notable countries were Bulgaria at 47, Belgium at 50, Spain at 68, and Australia 95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
British-based risk consultancy Maplecroft consultancy has issued a report on the stability of countries\u2019 water supplies around the world. Maplecroft helps, \u201cbusinesses and investors to navigate the political, economic, social and environmental risks affecting growth opportunities in both developed and emerging economies.\u201d Maplecroft\u2019s “water security risk index” assessed 165 nations from around the world, looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[2854,289,2356,2380,2391,2393],"yst_prominent_words":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/boat.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5879"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelivingideas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}