Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx) Data Portal
The global open data platform for rural water point data, aggregating over a million water point records worldwide with status, water source, technology and location. Filterable, mappable and fully downloadable via a Socrata-powered open data portal with a REST API.
data.waterpointdata.org
At a glance
- Region
- Global
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- NGO
- Last updated
- 2026
What's inside
- Water points
- Rural water supply
- Infrastructure status
- 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: Rural water supply
- 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
Socrata Open Data API (SODA) endpoints, e.g. data.waterpointdata.org/resource/{id}.json; keyless filtering/download
Licence: Open data
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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