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Water Risk and Demand Calculator

Size the water a design will actually draw, test it against the allocation you hold and the stress of the basin it sits in.

Water Risk Score

69 / 100

Manageable

Cooling Design

What the facility will actually draw

83

weight 25%

40 MW
1.30
85 %
83 / 100

Allocation and Rights

The volume you can legally draw

70

weight 30%

500,000 m³/yr
100 / 100
0 %
0 / 100
65 / 100

Basin Stress

The catchment you are drawing from

61

weight 25%

70 / 100
55 / 100
55 /100
45 / 100

Licence to Operate

Regulator, community and disclosure

60

weight 20%

55 / 100
65 /100
65 / 100
60 / 100

How the score is built

Each input is converted to a score out of 100, averaged inside its group by field weight, then averaged across groups by the group weights below. Inputs without a weight feed the calculated outputs only.

  • Cooling Design25%
  • Allocation and Rights30%
  • Basin Stress25%
  • Licence to Operate20%

Reading the result

  • 80+Water secure

    Demand, allocation and basin conditions are aligned.

  • 65+Manageable

    Workable with a cooling design change or a firmer allocation.

  • 45+Exposed

    Water is a live constraint on this design and will attract scrutiny.

  • 0+High risk

    The design draws more than the basin and the permit can support.

The working canvas

The calculator is the quantitative half. This is the page your team fills in around it, block by block, in a workshop or a diligence session.

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Water Risk Canvas

Basin Stress

Scarcity & withdrawal limits

Allocation & Rights

Secured water volume

Sustainability Risk

Regulatory & community

Cooling Options

Air / liquid / hybrid

Stakeholder Narrative

License to operate

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