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HydroSHEDS Global Water Data
SRTM-based global hydrography
hydrosheds.org
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- HydroSHEDS v2 releasing 2025
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Research Institute
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- Shapefiles
- River Networks
- Watershed Boundaries
- Flow Accumulation
- Global Coverage
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Coverage gaps
Find who lacks safe water or sanitation.
Because it has: River Networks
- 02
Benchmarking
Compare utilities on service and losses.
- 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.
- 01
Failure prediction
Predict pipe bursts and plant failures before they happen.
- 02
Demand forecasts
Forecast daily demand for pumping and storage.
- 03
Document extraction
Pull numbers out of PDFs and reports automatically.
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