Water data & information


1	Organisation	Name	Description	URL
2	FAO	FAO AQUASTAT	AQUASTAT is the FAO global information system on water resources and agricultural water management. It collects, analyses and provides free access to over 180 variables and indicators by country from 1960. AQUASTAT draws on national capacities and expertise with an emphasis on Africa, the Near East, countries of the former Soviet Union, Asia, and Latin America and the Caribbean. AQUASTAT plays a key role in the monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goal 6 that sets out to "ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all", and in particular indicators of target 6.4 on water stress and water use efficiency.	http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/OA
3	FAO	WaPOR - The FAO portal to monitor WAter Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data	WaPOR, FAO’s portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open-access of Remotely sensed derived data, gives users access to a wide variety of near real-time satellite data on water productivity. This information can be used by governments and research institutes to design strategies to increase water productivity and farmers’ resilience to drought, while respecting the environment and making equitable use of water resources. Presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7SOhk97hA	https://wapor.apps.fao.org/home/WAPOR_2/1
4	UNESCO IHP's	G-WADI	UNESCO IHP's Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands	https://gwadi.org
5	USAID	FEWS	Famine Early Warning Systems Network	https://fews.net
6	Plymouth Marine Laboratory's Remote Sensing Group	eartH2Observe Water Cycle Integrator	Assessment of global water resources through the use of new Earth Observation datasets and techniques. Integrates available earth observations, in-situ datasets and models, to construct a consistent global water resources reanalysis dataset of at least 30 years. The resulting datasets are made available through an open Water Cycle Integrator data portal. The datasets are downscaled for application in case-studies at regional and local levels, and optimized based on identified European and local needs supporting water management and decision making.	http://www.earth2observe.eu
7	World Bank	World Bank Group Climate Change Knowledge Portal	Provides global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts. Can be explored via Country, Region, and Watershed views. Also includes synthetized Country Profiles profivid deeper insights into climate risks and adaptations actions.	https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org
8	World Bank	World Bank Data - Country Profile	Development indicators by country or by indicator	https://data.worldbank.org/country/
9	WRI - World Resources Institute	WRI's Data Lab	WRI’s suite of data platforms aim to enable users to monitor forest change in near-real time, track the drivers of climate change, analyze water risks around the world, examine the cross-section of global environmental issues and more.	https://www.wri.org/data
10	UN	UN SDG6 data portal	Progress on SDG6 based on the indicators globally, by region or country	https://sdg6data.org
11	WHO UNICEF	WHO/UNICEF WASH data portal	Progress on WASH (SDG6.1 and SDG6.2) based on the SDG indicators globally, by region or country. The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) is the custodian of global data on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH).	https://washdata.org/data
12	UNICEF	UNICEF Statistics and Country Reports	Country, region, and divisional UNICEF statistics and annual reports	https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/
13	WHO	World Health Organisation	Country health profiles	https://www.who.int/countries
14	EBRD, EIF, IFC, WB, DFID, SIDA	Country Diagnostic	A joint database of published diagnostics by EBRD, EIB, IFC, WB, DFID and Sida. The Country Diagnostic Working Group was founded by EBRD, EIB, IFC, WB, DFID and Sida in 2017 to help share perspectives and experiences of preparing Country Diagnostics and develop cross-institutional collaboration where possible. The goal of this IFI and DFIS Working group is to promote: information sharing between the institutions methodology and practice experience discussions cross-institutional collaboration on country diagnostics work.	https://www.countrydiagnostics.com
15	ESGF	Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)	The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) maintains a global system of federated data centers that allow access to the largest archive of model climate data world-wide.	https://esgf-data.dkrz.de/projects/esgf-dkrz/
16	IWMI - International Water Management Institute	IWMI Global Assessment of Environmental Flows and Scarcity	The dataset presents a first attempt to estimate the volume of water required for the maintenance of freshwater-dependent ecosystems at the global scale.	http://waterdata.iwmi.org/Applications/Global_Assessment_Environmental_Water_Requirements_Scarcity_/
17	USDA	Global Reservoirs and Lakes Monitor (G-REALM)	Global reservoir and lakes database	https://ipad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/global_reservoir/#datasets
18	Enabel	Enabel project database		https://open.enabel.be/en/projects
19	WMO - World Meteorological Organisation	Hydro-Hub, the Global Hydrometry Support Facility	The GHSF aims to enhance the base of hydro-meteorological data at all levels to foster evidence- based policy- and decision-making, as well as facilitate conflict prevention and resolution in water resources management. Its long-term objective is to develop an efficient, innovative and sustainable framework for operational hydrometry, build capacity in hydrometry and water monitoring globally and facilitate free and open data sharing. The Global Hydrometry Support Facility brings together the newly established WHYCOS office, the WMO Hydrological Observing System (WHOS), a Hydrological Services Information Platform, and a Global Innovation Hub.	https://hydrohub.wmo.int/en/hydrological-services-information-platform
20		Sentinel Hub Playground	Visualisation and exploration of the diversity of remotely sensed images (from Sentinel 1 and 2, Landsat and MODIS) through time globally.	https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/?source=S1-AWS-IW-VVVH&lat=40.40722213305287&lng=-3.8929367065429688&zoom=11&preset=ENHANCED-VISUALIZATION&layers=VV,VV,VV&maxcc=20&gain=1.0&gamma=1.0&time=2020-05-01%7C2020-11-05&atmFilter=&showDates=false
21	NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Giovani - The Bridge Between Data and Science	Platform to access all type of remotely sensed data	https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/
22	Google	Google Earth Engine	Platform to access and analyse remotely sensed data. Google Earth Engine combines a multi-petabyte catalog of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with planetary-scale analysis capabilities and makes it available for scientists, researchers, and developers to detect changes, map trends, and quantify differences on the Earth's surface.	https://earthengine.google.com
23	Digital Earth Africa	Digital Earth Africa	Data and products for the African continent. Include analysis-ready datasets, a platform for users to interact with Digital Earth Africa (DE Africa), and services that translate Earth Observation data into meaningful information for users. Include also a continental-wide service claimed to allow anyone to better understand water presence, location, recurrence and trend anywhere in Africa.	www.digitalearthafrica.org
24	EU Joint Research Center	The Global Surface Water Explorer	The Global Surface Water Explorer is a water dataset developed in the Copernicus Programme. This maps the location and temporal distribution of water surfaces at the global scale over the past 32 years and provides statistics on the extent and change of those water surfaces. The dataset, produced from Landsat imagery (courtesy of the United States Geological Study (USGS) and NASA) will support applications including water resource management, climate modelling, biodiversity conservation and food security.	https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/
25	UNEP, WB, GRID- GENEVA	MapX	Impartial and independent mapping and monitoring of natural resources. MapX was developed by UN Environment, the World Bank and the Global Resource Information Database (GRID-Geneva) to capitalize on the use of new digital technologies and cloud computing in the sustainable management of natural resources. One of the founding principles was to equalize information held by different stakeholders as a prerequisite to better dialogue, decision making and monitoring.	https://www.mapx.org/applications/
26				https://www.aiddata.org
27				https://iatistandard.org/en/
28	OECD	Aid to the Water and Sanitation sector	The OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) collects aid flows at activity level based on a standard methodology and agreed definitions. The Aid to Water Supply and Sanitation sector is broken down into eleven sub sectors including policy, sanitation, supply, rivers and waste.	https://www.oecd.org/dac/environment-development/water-relatedaid.htm
29		Query Wizard for International Development Statistics (QWIDS)	DAC statistic per donor(s), recipient(s), flow(s), flow type(s), sector(s), and time period(s). Can	https://stats.oecd.org/qwids
30		Compare your country - Aid statistics by donor, recipient and sector	Aid statistics by donor, recipient and sector	https://www2.compareyourcountry.org/aid-statistics?cr=228&lg=en&page=21
31		Aid at a glance: Charts and data	Official Development Assistance (ODA) flows for DAC and non-DAC members, recipients, and regions.	https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19g5GyWdQKefNSupiQf2KlWGt2mALLnQQN9ajYhEzVZs/edit#gid=0
32	UNESCO IHP	G-WADI	UNESCO IHP's Global Network on Water and Development Information for Arid Lands	https://gwadi.org
33	Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences (CUAHSI)	Hydroshare	HydroShare is CUAHSI's online collaboration environment for sharing data, models, and code.	https://www.hydroshare.org/landingPage/
34	UNESCO IHP	WINS	Water Information Network System (WINS) is an open access and free participatory platform for sharing, accessing and visualizing water-related information, as well as for connecting water stakeholders.	https://en.unesco.org/ihp-wins


2	Name	Description	URL
3	World Economic Forum's World Water Initiative		https://www.weforum.org/projects/global-water-initiative
6	Sustainable Sanitation Alliance	SuSanA is an informal network of people and organisations who share a common vision on sustainable sanitation and who want to contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG6. Learn more about our definition of sustainable sanitation here. SuSanA came into existence in early 2007. Since then, it has been providing a platform for coordination and collaborative work. SuSanA connects members to a community of people with diverse expertise and opinions. SuSanA also serves as sounding board for innovative ideas. Finally, SuSanA contributes to policy dialogue through joint publications, meetings and initiatives. The SuSanA website – with its library, project database and discussion forum – is an important resource for anyone wanting to explore the possibilities of sustainable sanitation.	https://www.susana.org/en/
7	UN SDG	Lists links towards website related to SDG6	https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/
8	RESCIF	RESCIF (Réseau d'excellence des sciences de l'ingénieur de la francophonie) strives to anticipate and prepare for the new wave of emerging countries and emerging universities. In these establishments, RESCIF’sinitiatives will make it possible to train young engineers in the most advanced technologies and to conduct research that will be useful for the development of these countries. The aim is to promote joint scientific programmes, particularly in the fields of water, nutrition and energy. These sectors are crucial, particularly for some countries of the South,subject to extremely challenging climate conditions and food security issues.	https://www.rescif.net/en/rescif/


1	REPOSITORY
2	Institution	Year	Country	Name	Description	URL
3	Evidensia - an alliance of organisations (SEAL Alliance, Rainforest Alliance and WWF, and GEF) working with the world’s research community	Mutli	Multi	Evidensia - Informing action for a sustainable future	Evidensia provides easy access to credible research on the sustainability impacts of supply chain initiatives and tools, including standards and certification.On Evidensia you can search in our online library for studies by country or region, by sector or product, by sustainability issue, by organisation or tool. You can see transparent information about how a study was designed. You can also see results across an entire sustainability topic in our visual summaries. Experts provide their insights on the latest research to help you understand results. Includes an issue on freshwater and oceans.	https://www.evidensia.eco
4	RELX	Mutli	Multi	RELX Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Resource Centre	The SDG Resource Centre showcases the latest in science, law, business, events and more that can help drive forward the SDGs, drawing on content from across the whole of our company and from key partners as well. The aim is to support the UN in implementing the SDGs and to broaden awareness and understanding of the SDGS for our customers, governments, researchers, companies, NGOs and individuals. The content on the SDG Resource Centre includes articles, reports, legal practical guidance, tools, webinars and videos and events, categorised by SDG and tagged with relevant topics and region.	https://sdgresources.relx.com
5	Various	1926-2019	Mutli	Water-related research conducted by Belgian scientists	Repertory of scientific litterature published by Belgian authors on topics linked to the sustainable development goal 6 on water. The repertory is hosted in an interacitve dashboard, allowing e.g. to search for publications based on a topic, or search for case-study reasearch body published on a specific country.	http://www.waternexusbelgium.org/bibliometrics-of-water-related-research-conducted-by-belgian-actors.html
6	Collaboration for Environmental Evidences	Mutli	Mutli	Library of environmental evidences	CEE Evidence Syntheses take the form of systematic reviews and (evidence) maps providing rigorous and transparent methodology to assess the impacts of human activity and effectiveness of policy and management interventions.	http://www.environmentalevidence.org
7	Join for Water - Protos	Multi	Multi (Mainly Mali, DR Congo, Benin, Madagascar, Uganda, Ecuador, Haiti)	Join For Water's publications	Case study report, inventory, sectioral plan, tool boxes. Country-based for the most part	https://www.joinforwater.ngo/en/joinforwater-publications
8	Enabel	Muli	Multi	Publications in the water sector	Enabel's publications in the water sector	https://www.enabel.be/content/what-enabel-doing-water-and-sanitation-sector
9	World Bank	Multi	Multi	World Bank Publications	Can be browsed by Country, Topic, Document Type, Language and Series	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/home
10	OECD	Mutli	Mutli	OECD iLibrary	OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data. Searchable by Theme and/or Country	https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/oecd/about
11	KLIMOS			KLIMOS Environmental Sustainability Toolkit: Database	The database contains easily retrievable environmental information, organized along four access criteria: country, theme, sector and publication type. The criteria can be combined to narrow the search function	https://ees.kuleuven.be/apps/klimostoolkit/index.html
12	AIDDATA					https://www.aiddata.org/publications
13	SINGLE PUBLICATION
14	Organisation / Name	Year	Country	Name	Description	URL
15	OECD	?	Multi	Financing Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries - Key trends and figures		https://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-topics/Financing%20water%20and%20sanitation%20in%20developing%20countries%20-%20key%20trends%20and%20figures.pdf
16	UE			Water Sector Development and Governance: Complementarities and synergies between Sector-Wide Approach and Integrated Water Resource Management		https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/t-and-m-series/discussions/reference-document-no-7-water-sector-development-and-governance-complementarities-and
17	UN-Water	2016	Global	Water and Sanitation Interlinkages across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development		http://www.unwater.org/publications/water-sanitation-interlinkages-across-2030-agenda-sustainable-development/
18	FAO	2018	Global	Progress on level of water stress - Global baseline for SDG 6 Indicator 6.4.2 2018. Rome. FAO/UN-Water. 58 pp. Licence: CC BY- NC-SA 3.0 IGO.		http://www.fao.org/3/CA1592EN/ca1592en.pdf
19	UNESCO; ICWRM	2018	Multi	Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA): collaborative water resources planning for an uncertain future		https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000265895


1	Institution	Title	Type	Language	Description	URL
2	KULEUVEN - Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies	The UN Sustainable Development Goals: an Interdisciplinary Academic Introduction	Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)	En	An interdisciplinary introduction to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)which looks at all SDGs, their progress and challenges.	https://www.edx.org/course/the-un-sustainable-development-goals-an-interdisci
3	UCLouvain	L'eau et les sols - Hydrodynamique des milieux poreux	MOOC	Fr	Free online soil physics course in French. Organized by 7 universitities and supervised by UCLouvain. The MOOC is co-funded by UCLouvain and RESCIF (Réseau d'excellence des sciences de l'ingénieur de la francophonie), a French-speaking network for innovation and development.	https://www.edx.org/course/leau-et-les-sols-hydrodynamique-des-milieux-poreux
4	ULiège	Les techniques d'irrigation	MOOC	Fr	Free online irrigation course in French. Organized and funded by ULiege. Taught in collaboration with UCLouvain.	https://www.fun-mooc.fr/courses/course-v1:ulg+108010+session02/about
5	NASA	ARSET - Applied Remote Sensing Training	Online training with certification	En	The ARSET Program offers satellite remote sensing training that builds the skills to integrate NASA Earth Science data into an agency’s decision-making activities. Trainings are offered in air quality, climate, disaster, health, land, water resources, and wildfire management. Through online and in person training, ARSET has reached over 32,000 participants from 170 countries and more than 7,500 organizations worldwide. Through ARSET trainings, you can learn how to: Use NASA data for environmental management Search and access NASA resources relevant to your needs Visualize, interpret, and apply remote sensing data and imagery	https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov
6	IWA	International Water Association's online learning platform - The place for learning & professional development in the Water Sector	Various	En	Short courses, self-paced courses, webinars, references to Water Master Degrees. "Professionals in the water sector require continuous development to be able to stay abreast with the changing environment circumstances. No matter in which stage of your career, IWA provides you with guidance and opportunities to build up the competences required to succeed. This includes a set of tools on how to develop your career, as well as opportunity of professional updating, learning, training and networking."	https://iwa-network.org/iwa-learn/
7	Geneva Environment Network	Geneva Environment Network Events	Webinars	En	Events organised by Geneva Environment Network. Include webinar on water and SDG6.	https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/
8	RESCIF	A French-speaking network for innovation and development	MOOC	Fr	MOOCS in fields that are crucial for some countries of the South, particularly water, nutrition and energy.	https://www.rescif.net/en/
9	UNDP	Cap-Net is UNDP´s global network for capacity development in sustainable water management within the Global Water and Oceans Governance Support Programme.	Online course	En or Spanish	Propose a variety of online courses on topics related to water resources management	https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19g5GyWdQKefNSupiQf2KlWGt2mALLnQQN9ajYhEzVZs/edit#gid=531836065


1	Organisation	URL	Description
2	EDUCAID	https://www.educaid.be/nl	Platform for Education and training in DC. Serves to reinforce, support and defend educative sector within Belgian DC.
3	Digital for development	http://digitalfordevelopment.be	Online forum for the Digital for Development program. A meeting place where partnerships are ignited between the private sector and actors in the Belgian Development Cooperation.
4	Donor Harmonization Group	No website seemingly	The DHG is an informal network of European agencies that administer aid-funded capacity building programmes in education. The DHG brings these partners together in the spirit of the 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness to support each other in improving the quality of aid and its impact.
5	The Shift	https://theshift.be	The Shift is the Belgian meeting point for sustainability. We bring together some 440 companies, NGOs and other organisations to stimulate partnerships and help co-create sustainable business models.