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Transboundary water disputes

Shared rivers and aquifers are increasingly used as instruments of pressure between states as dams, diversions and droughts reduce flows, raising the risk of conflict over water across many contested basins.

Rank: 202; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 0.39×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 39; 100 is the typical trend
Change: −8%; WoW
Volatility: ±2%; Stable

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

Latin America & Caribbean

0.66×

#182

0.56×

#216

0.43×

#229

0.36×

#200

0.31×

#219

0.25×

#239

0.22×

#241

0.19×

#243

0.14×

#246

0.07×

#244

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

0.39×

#206

0.36×

#224

0.36×

#236

0.31×

#216

0.28×

#234

0.26×

#218

0.25×

#240

0.22×

#241

0.20×

#241

0.20×

#240

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

1.6×

#133

1.4×

#138

1.2×

#139

0.64×

#208

0.63×

#207

0.59×

#188

0.56×

#183

0.54×

#225

0.53×

#229

0.52×

#205

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 48.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Transboundary water disputes, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.