Urban Water Demand Database (AQUASTAT/UN-Habitat)
UN-Habitat and FAO jointly compiled data on urban water demand patterns, per capita water consumption, non-revenue water losses, and municipal water supply efficiency for cities worldwide.
data.unhabitat.org
At a glance
- Region
- Multi-country (Global)
- Coverage
- Global Urban Areas
- Access
- Free
- Category
- International
What's inside
- Urban Water Demand
- Per Capita Consumption
- Water Supply Efficiency
- Municipal Water
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: Water Supply Efficiency
- 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.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
data.unhabitat.org CKAN API
Licence: CC-BY 4.0
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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