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Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database

International river basins and water treaties. 310 international river basins with treaties and events.

The register of international river basins with their riparian countries, plus databases of international freshwater treaties, river basin organisations and cooperative or conflictive events.

Source
Oregon State University
Resolution
Polygons
Data type
Polygons and tables
Time span
1820–present (treaties)
Temporal
Event records
Access type
Direct download (external)
Formats
Shapefile, spreadsheets
Coverage
Global (-180, -90, 180, 90)
Licence
See provider terms
Provider page
transboundarywaters.ceoas.oregonstate.edu/

Cite as. McCracken, M., Wolf, A. T. (2019). Updating the Register of International River Basins of the world. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 35(5), 732–782. https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2019.1572497

Access

curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/tfdd/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record