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HDX - WASH Cluster 4W/3W Humanitarian Datasets

Collection of WASH humanitarian datasets on HDX including Who-is-doing-What-Where (3W/4W) matrices and access data from WASH clusters across crisis-affected countries. Downloadable via CKAN with API access.

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At a glance

Region
Global
Coverage
Crisis-affected countries
Access
Free
Category
UN Organization
Last updated
2026

What's inside

  • WASH cluster
  • 3W/4W
  • Humanitarian response
  • Access

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Coverage gaps

    Find who lacks safe water or sanitation.

    Because it has: WASH cluster

  2. 02

    Benchmarking

    Compare utilities on service and losses.

  3. 03

    Investment

    Prioritise where new plants and networks should go.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Failure prediction

    Predict pipe bursts and plant failures before they happen.

  2. 02

    Demand forecasts

    Forecast daily demand for pumping and storage.

  3. 03

    Document extraction

    Pull numbers out of PDFs and reports automatically.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

HDX CKAN action API for dataset search and package retrieval

Licence: Open data

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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