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.
- 01
Coverage gaps
Find who lacks safe water or sanitation.
Because it has: Sanitation
- 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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- CWSA Water Atlas (Ghana)Africa | Free
- ESAWAS Regional Benchmarking of WSS UtilitiesAfrica | Free
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