AquaNOW is a web-based tool that manages over 300,000 pieces of data from 26,000 water-related news articles to support water risk and opportunity decision making. It was developed by OOSKAnews in collaboration with the Global Water Challenge and United States Water Partnership. The tool allows users to search its database of water news, view results on interactive maps, and find information on topics like corporate risk, environment, and health to help address global water challenges.

1. Introducing
June 2013

2. What is ?
1. A web-based engine that manages the world’s
most substantive database of water-related
news
2. A water-risk & water-opportunity decision
support tool
3. Over 300,000 tagged data points across more
than 26,000 water news articles
4. Designed to meet the intelligence requirements
of international water constituencies

3. Who is for?
1. International water professionals & analysts
• Public policy & governance
• Investment & finance communities
• Water technology, infrastructure & innovation
• Corporate risk
2. NGOs & Think Tanks
3. Academia
4. The media

4. What does look like?

5. What can you do with ?
1. Exploit the world’s most substantive database of water-
related news to support water-risk & water-opportunity
decision making
2. Zoom into a map-based interface delivering detailed
results at watershed, country & local levels
3. Conduct topic-driven searches in over 25 subject areas
incl.
• Corporate Risk
• Environment
• Health
• Energy and Food Security
• Regulation and Transnational Issues

6. Zooming into

7. What do results look like?

8. Topic-driven search in

9. Who developed ?
1. OOSKAnews, Inc., in collaboration with the Global
Water Challenge (GWC) & the United States Water
Partnership (USWP)
2. 150 journalists with water sector expertise in more
than 70 countries assembled the content of
aquaNOW.info since OOSKAnews launched in 2006
3. aquaNOW.info synthesizes & packages the historical
data & stream of current information produced by
OOSKAnews

10. Who developed ?
1. OOSKAnews, Inc., is the world’s leading provider of
water-related news, producing a Daily Water Briefing
and five Weekly Water Reports.
2. The Global Water Challenge (GWC) is a coalition of
leading corporations, NGOs and other organizations
committed to achieving universal access to safe
drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
3. The United States Water Partnership (USWP) unites
and mobilizes U.S. expertise, resources and ingenuity
to address water challenges around the globe,
particularly in the developing world.

11. What do the founders say?
“We believe that aquaNOW.info will help
governments, organizations, corporations
and others to address the world’s many
different water challenges.”
- David Duncan
CEO, OOSKAnews Inc.

12. What do the founders say?
- Monica Ellis,
CEO of Global Water Challenge
“We are delighted to support the launch of aquaNOW.
Our mission is to help promote water security around the
world and this tool offers unprecedented access to water
intelligence.”

13. 1. To find out more visit www.
2. For more information, partnerships or any other
collaboration please don’t hesitate to contact us:
• OOSKAnews : info@ooskanews.com
• GWC: info@globalwaterchallenge.org
• USWP: info@uswaterpartnership.org
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