GlobalDamWatch.org is an international collaboration between researchers and practitioners who are passionate about understanding the costs and benefits of dams to our world. We provide access to the world's most comprehensive open-access dam database and maintain a curated, consensus global database of dams. GDW Knowledgebase is both a crowdsourcing tool for building and maintaining the GDW database and an analytical engine for understanding dams and their impacts at scales from local to global. Join in and help us map, monitor and better understand the world's dams, GDWKB is a work in progress, if you use the data here, also improve it.
GlobalDamWatch Knowledgebase is developed by King's College London and AmbioTEK CIC with globaldamwatch.org partners in collaboration with SESYNC pursuits: Global Dam Watch: Developing a community platform to map global dams, reservoirs, and river barriers and Planning for sustainable water futures in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the SDGs. Global Dam Watch Knowledgebase contains records for more than a million dams, and some 30 million attributes. These are developed from a range of open-access sources and analyses as listed in GDWKB. GDWKB includes the largest global database of dams, with all dam locations also snapped to HydroSHEDS. We include dams and their reservoirs only and do not include weirs and other river barriers. A dam is any structure that holds back a body of water for storage or disrupts water flow for energy generation.