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openAFRICA Water Datasets

Africa's largest independent open data repository by Code for Africa hosting downloadable water facility inventories, water point maps, and water body GIS data across multiple African countries

open.africa

At a glance

Region
Africa
Coverage
Continental (multiple African countries)
Access
Free
Category
Portal

What's inside

  • Water Facilities
  • Water Points
  • Water Bodies
  • GIS Data
  • Sanitation

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: Sanitation

  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.

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