ManagementReservoirs
Global Dam Watch Database
GDW v1.0. A harmonised global database of dams and reservoirs.
Merges GRanD, GOODD and other sources into one set of more than 41,000 barriers with reservoir polygons, cleaned for duplicates and linked to the HydroSHEDS river network.
- Source
- Global Dam Watch
- Resolution
- Points and polygons
- Data type
- Points and polygons
- Time span
- Static (v1.0, 2024)
- Temporal
- Static
- Access type
- Direct download (external)
- Formats
- Shapefile, File geodatabase
- Coverage
- Global (-180, -90, 180, 90)
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Provider page
- www.globaldamwatch.org/database
Cite as. Lehner, B., et al. (2024). The Global Dam Watch database of river barrier and reservoir information for large-scale applications. Scientific Data, 11, 1069. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03752-9
Access
linkDownload from Global Dam Watch
curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/global-dam-watch/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
-H "Accept: application/json"import requests
r = requests.get("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/global-dam-watch/links",
params={"bbox": "-75,-20,-50,5"})
for group in r.json()["groups"]:
for link in group["links"]:
print(link["url"])const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/global-dam-watch/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record
