This approach, in line with the UNESCO IHP HELP programme, requires a morecomprehensiveunderstanding globally, with broad dissemination and uptake at the basin level.
You could look at data like this through columns of numbers, of course, but the use of color, sound and time makes for a vastly quicker and morecomprehensiveunderstanding.
Too often, accident investigations blame a failure only on the last step in a complex process, when a morecomprehensiveunderstanding of that process could reveal that earlier steps might be equally or even more culpable.