Orange-Senqu River Commission (ORASECOM)
Transboundary water management data for the Orange-Senqu River Basin shared by South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Namibia, including water quality and flow data.
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At a glance
- Region
- Multi-country (Southern Africa) (Africa)
- Coverage
- Orange-Senqu River Basin
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
What's inside
- Water Quality
- River Flow
- Hydrology
- Transboundary
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Because it has: River Flow
- 02
Low flows
Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.
- 03
Hotspots and trends
Find where contamination is high and whether it is getting worse.
Because it has: Water Quality
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
- 02
Ungauged basins
Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.
- 03
Risk maps
Predict contamination where no samples exist, from geology, land use and climate.
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