Global Dam Watch - Barriers and Reservoirs
Global Dam Watch - Barriers and Reservoirs
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Response (Policies and Goals/Targets)
SDG 6
Source
Global Dam Watch consortium
Global Dam Watch consortium
Suggested citation
The five foundational source datasets from which the first version of the GDW database was created are: 1) GOODD (Mulligan et al. 2020); 2) GRanD (version 1.4; Lehner et al. 2011); 3) FHReD (Zarfl et al. 2015); 4) JRC-GSW (Pekel et al. 2016); and 5) GROD (Yang et al. 2022).
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License
Date or time period of observation
1984-2022
Frequency of Update
Geographic coverage
Spatial resolution
N/A
WMS base URL
https://africa-knowledge-platform.ec.europa.eu/geoserver/gwc/
Legend URL
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