Mapping Public Water Management

In an effort to fill this data gap, this technical note tests
a novel data collection approach that relies on crowd- sourcing data from multinational enterprises with opera- tions across many geographies. The approach was piloted with six contributing multinational companies, and the results were validated in eight locations in the region

of Southern California (United States) and the state of Maharashtra (India).

The pilot study suggests that the new data collection approach is scalable and has the potential to generate a global dataset of public water management capacity. The field validation exercise suggests that the collected data are mostly viewed as valid by local experts and stakehold- ers, but the exercise also identifies a number of weak- nesses. Based on these findings, this paper presents an updated survey that improves upon the original survey used in the pilot study.

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