Data set of the linkages that water security has on other SDGs. The data are based on literature review and final data consists of 120 publications. The linkages are graded from -3 (cancelling) to +3 (indivisible) according Nilsson et al. classification.  Prior to data collection, all the reviewers participated in training on SDGs and water security, and on review training before the work. Only papers with a link from water security to SDGs (not vice versa) were included. The resulting subset of 170 papers was then read and evaluated by all the authors independently, with a 10% random overlap on the papers (i.e. 17 of the papers were reviewed at least twice, by different people). During this process, another 50 papers were found to be irrelevant (e.g. due to full paper inaccessibility or questionnaire analysis with no inclusion of SDGs) and were therefore eliminated. The results are thus based on the 120 reviewed papers that we found to be suitable for the analysis. See the journal paper methods for more information, and Supplementary material for author bias analysis.  The list of paper ID's can be found rom the journal paper in One Earth. Column "Review" indicates whether the analyzed publication was a review or an original research paper. 1_waterresources_sec = an identified linkage to the water resources dimension of the water security concept 2_human_sec = an identified linkage to the human security dimension of the water security concept 3_national_sec =  = an identified linkage to the national security dimension of the water security concept 4_climate_sec = an identified linkage to the climate security dimension of the water security concept 5_energy_sec = an identified linkage to the energy security dimension of the water security concept 6_food_sec = an identified linkage to the food security dimension of the water security concept sdg_counts = the total number of SDGs with reported linkage of water security year = publication year

2021