Groundwater Storage in Africa (IHP-WINS)
5 km resolution gridded estimate of groundwater storage across Africa (in mm), derived from saturated aquifer thickness and effective porosity, downloadable as a cloud-optimized GeoTIFF via UNESCO IHP-WINS.
ihp-wins.unesco.org
At a glance
- Region
- Africa
- Coverage
- Continental (Africa)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- UN Organization
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- Groundwater Storage
- Raster
- GeoTIFF
- Aquifer
Terms explained
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 Storage
- 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 portal; cloud-optimized GeoTIFF (COG) direct download
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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