Global Dam Watch consortium
Global Dam Watch harmonised dam and reservoir database
Harmonised merger of the major global dam inventories, resolving duplicate and conflicting records between GRanD, GOODD and national registers.
Rights
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial reuse
- Not clearly stated
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from Global Dam Watch consortium, used under CC BY 4.0.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Global Dam Watch consortium
- Geographic coverage
- Global
- Update frequency
- irregular
- Formats
- shapefile, csv
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- reservoir, infrastructure
Notes
A harmonised merge of the major dam inventories. Hydrionis currently uses GRanD and HydroSHEDS directly; the harmonised product is the better long-term source once its per-layer licensing is confirmed.