Water Stress Exposure

axis WSE · weight 0.3 · 32 states published · vintage v9.1 (2026-09-17)

Source. WRI Aqueduct 4.0

Formula. Withdrawals over renewable supply, normalised 0-100

States, most exposed first

#StateWSE
1Qatar100.0
2Bahrain100.0
3United Arab Emirates100.0
4Saudi Arabia99.6
5Israel98.8
6Chile89.4
7Belgium88.2
8South Africa83.4
9India82.2
10Mexico79.9
11Spain78.8
12Italy66.9
13Australia58.1
14Indonesia53.4
15United States52.1
16South Korea47.6
17Germany40.8
18Japan39.4
19France38.3
20Poland33.2
21Netherlands31.6
22United Kingdom26.0
23Canada24.7
24Brazil20.8
25Malaysia20.7
26Denmark19.0
27Finland16.2
28Sweden15.6
29Switzerland8.1
30Austria5.2
31Norway3.8
32New Zealand1.0

States absent from this table are states for which the index does not publish this axis. The reason is published rather than inferred; see published gaps.

Query this from your own tooling

This index is an MCP server. Any AI client that supports MCP can read it directly and get an answer bound to the hash below, rather than to a screenshot of this page.

{"mcpServers": {"qesis": {"type": "http", "url": "https://qesis.eu/mcp"}}}

# then ask: qesis_rank_countries, or qesis_get_component_audit for WSE