International Data

International Sources

This section provides links to other websites where international water data can be accessed and downloaded.

• The World’s Water Series (Pacific Institute) - Getting good data on the many issues related to freshwater has long been a challenge. Here you will find data tables from the World's Water series, along with select content from the 2008-2009 edition

• AQUASTAT (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) - AQUASTAT is FAO's global information system on water and agriculture developed by the Land and Water Division. It collects, analyses and disseminates data and information by country and by region.

• Water Information System for Europe (WISE) - a partnership between the European Commission and the European Environment Agency that contains the Water Data Center, the Joint Research Center, and Eurostat, an organization that collects and disseminates water statistics.

• FAOSTAT (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) - FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional  data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries. 

• CountrySTAT (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) - CountrySTAT is being developed and implemented in a number of target countries, primarily in sub-saharan Africa. It will offer a two-way data exchange facility between countries and FAO as well as a facility to store data at the national and sub-national levels.

• Digital Water Atlas (Global Water System Project) - Average water footprint per capita per country for the period 1997-2001. The dataset was created within the context of the interdisciplinary research programme “Globalisation of Water”, carried out by the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and the University of Twente.

• Earth Trends (World Resources Institute) - Information about global ground and surface water resources, watersheds, and drinking water. Country profiles also available.