The Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) is a report published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asia-Pacific Water Forum (APWF) which aims to assess water management and security conditions of 49 economies in the Asia-Pacific region. To measure the extent of water security, each country is assessed in the AWDO through the National Water Security Index (NWSI) representing the five stages of water security. The NWSI has a maximum value of 5 and a maximum score of 100. Each stage of the index corresponds to the total scores of a country’s five key dimensions (KDs) on water security with the most advanced stage categorized as “model” and the least advanced as “nascent.”
