WSIM

Introducing Water Security Indicator Model Version 2

Introducing Water Security Indicator Model Version 2

ISciences is transitioning production of our monthly Global Water Monitor & Forecast Watch List reports to use outputs from a new version of our Water Security Indicator Model (WSIM). WSIMv2 makes use of more recent and publicly available input datasets and uses a revised methodology for calculating composite water anomalies.

Zambia Hydropower at Risk

Zambia is forecast to experience continued severe and increasing loss of electricity generating capacity at least until December 2016, according to ISciences WSIM Electricity Assessment.  The WSIM Electricity Assessment is produced monthly and shows current and forecast estimated power losses globally for the next nine months.

Is the Past Decade of Persistent Drought In Brazil a New Normal?

A sixty-year record of extreme weather conditions shows a disturbing pattern of deficit surface water conditions throughout Amazonia.The Water Security Indicators Model (WSIM) developed by ISCIENCES LLC is used to examine average monthly hydrological conditions throughout the basin. An apparent correlation with the emergence of temperature extremes over the same period begs the question whether man-made climate change is the root cause.The literature however points to man-made deforestation as the critical factor, raising concern that "the Amazon is losing the ability to control it's own climate." If true, consequences will have profound impact on the region and the global environment.