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Understanding Water Risk

Simvia supports both the WWF Water Risk Filter 2024 (WRF2024) and the earlier WRF2021 dataset. This allows you to work with the most up-to-date risk insights while maintaining reporting consistency if you rely on historical data.

You can find Water risk region filters in the Organisations overview → Filters.

There you can choose between:

  • WRF 2024
  • SIFAV Reporting
  • WRF 2021

1. WRF 2024

WRF2024 includes updated global data and more detailed regional insights.

Unlike WRF2021 (which used one overall basin risk score), WRF2024 separates risk into three pillars:

  • Basin Physical Risk
  • Basin Regulatory Risk
  • Basin Reputational Risk

You can also select Top Basin Risk, which shows the highest value across the three pillars for each organisation.

Important:

For water risk filters to work correctly, each organisation must have a country and region filled in. If regional data is unavailable, the country-level score is used instead.

2. SIFAV Reporting

If you are part of SIFAV or need one combined water risk score, you can use the SIFAV Basin Risk.

This is a weighted combination of WRF2024 pillars:

Formula:

Overall basin risk =

(Physical × 70%) + (Regulatory × 20%) + (Reputational × 10%)

Each pillar is calculated using WWF’s agriculture weightings across sub-dimensions such as:

  • Water availability
  • Drought
  • Flooding
  • Water quality
  • Governance
  • Environmental and socioeconomic factors

This option is commonly used for SIFAV-aligned reporting.

3. WRF 2021

WRF2021 remains available to support long-term reporting consistency.

The previous raw value filter has been removed to keep filtering aligned with WWF’s recommended risk categories.

Risk Categories

All water risk filters use the same WWF risk levels:

  • Very Low
  • Low
  • Medium
  • High
  • Very High

These categories correspond directly to WWF’s official scoring framework.

How to Use Water Risk Filters

1. Identify High-Risk Suppliers

Go to Organisations → Filters → Water Risk Region and select:

  • Dataset (e.g. WRF2024 Physical Risk)
  • Risk level (e.g. High / Very High)

This provides an overview of suppliers located in higher-risk regions.

2. Automatically Request Documents from High-Risk Regions

You can also use water risk as a condition in Requirement Rules:

  1. Go to Requirement Rules

  2. Create or edit a rule

  3. Add a filter:

    Water Risk Region → WRF2024 (e.g. Physical Risk)

  4. Select risk levels (e.g. High / Very High)

  5. Attach the required document types (e.g. SPRING, Rainforest Alliance)

  6. Activate the target group

Suppliers in high-risk regions will appear as non-compliant until the required documents are provided and will be visible in your compliance overview.

By using water risk filters together with requirement rules, you can move from identifying risk to actively managing and mitigating it within your supply chain.