All water data sources
FreeResearchGlobal

Virtual water trade and water footprint of agricultural goods: the 1961-2016 CWASI database

Country-specific water footprint and virtual water trade data for 370 agricultural goods across all countries (1961-2016), tracing goods to production origin.

doi.org

At a glance

Region
Global
Coverage
Global
Access
Free
Category
Research
Last updated
2021

What's inside

  • Hydrological Data

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Design flows

    Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.

    Because it has: Hydrological Data

  2. 02

    Low flows

    Set environmental flows and check what is left in the river in a dry year.

  3. 03

    Irrigation scheduling

    Decide when and how much to irrigate.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Flow forecasting

    Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.

  2. 02

    Ungauged basins

    Combine with catchment data to estimate flow where there is no gauge.

  3. 03

    Field-scale ET

    Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.

Machine access and documentation

Data paper

Virtual water trade and water footprint of agricultural goods: the 1961-2016 CWASI database

Earth System Science Data 2021

Read the paper

Find more water data

Search and compare 1,900+ water data sources by region, type and access.