Correction to: Nature Water https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-022-00020-1. Published online 19 January 2023.

In the version of this article originally published, in the section by Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo, there was an error in the sentence now reading “High water stress affects about 250 million people20”, which has been updated from the original text reading “High water stress affects about 250 million people and will potentially displace up to 700 million people by 2030 (ref. 20).” The changes have been made in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.