RCMRD on Africa GeoPortal
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development hub on Esri's Africa GeoPortal, sharing water and hydrology layers (water bodies, major rivers, clean-water access, flood layers) for Eastern and Southern Africa as downloadable GIS data and ArcGIS feature services.
rcmrd.africageoportal.com
At a glance
- Region
- Eastern & Southern Africa (Africa)
- Coverage
- Regional
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Regional
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- water bodies
- rivers
- WASH access
- geospatial
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: WASH access
- 02
Benchmarking
Compare utilities on service and losses.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
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
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
ArcGIS Hub / REST FeatureServer endpoints (GeoJSON, GeoService API) per dataset
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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