Geoscience Australia National Groundwater Information System (NGIS)
National spatial database of groundwater information with more than 850,000 bore locations and associated lithology, bore construction and hydrostratigraphy logs plus 2D/3D aquifer geometries.
data.gov.au
At a glance
- Region
- Australia (Oceania)
- Coverage
- Australia
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- Groundwater level
- Bore logs
- Aquifer geometry
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Trend hotspots
Find where water tables are falling year after year.
Because it has: Groundwater level
- 02
Recharge planning
Site recharge structures and new borewells with evidence.
- 03
Storage tracking
Follow storage and releases through the season.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Gap filling
Rebuild missing well readings from neighbours, rainfall and season.
- 02
Level forecasts
Forecast pre- and post-monsoon levels well by well.
- 03
Storage from space
Estimate volume from satellite water area and altimetry.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
CKAN API on data.gov.au; WMS/WFS web services
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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- NSW Real-Time Water Data (WaterNSW)Oceania | Free
- NSW SEED Real-Time Groundwater MonitoringOceania | Free
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