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HydroWASTE Global WWTP Database

58,502 wastewater treatment plants worldwide with discharge data

hydrosheds.org

At a glance

Region
Global
Coverage
58,000+ WWTPs
Access
Free
Category
Research
Last updated
2025

What's inside

  • Wastewater
  • Treatment Plants
  • Discharge
  • GIS Data

Terms explained

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: Wastewater

  2. 02

    Benchmarking

    Compare utilities on service and losses.

  3. 03

    Design flows

    Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.

    Because it has: Discharge

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

    Flow forecasting

    Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.

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