Data & Tools
Region Atlas
A layered interactive map of the water sector across the Middle East and North Africa: every tracked project with a known location, plus dams, rivers, lakes, and rainfall and population overlays. Built on the MENA Water Review map library.
Facilities & features
Land shading
Region overlay
Only larger / tracked infrastructure is shown. Hover or tap a country, river, lake or marker for its name; click a project marker to open its page in the register. Where markers overlap, the first click fans them out so each can be picked.
Sources and notes
Shown: major dams (FAO AQUASTAT), tracked desalination, wastewater and conveyance projects, and the rivers; the thousands of smaller facilities are omitted for clarity. Dams the register places wrongly take their point from Global Dam Watch v1.0, Wikidata or OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); dams with no reliable point are left off, and capacities follow the corrections on each country page. Rivers: Natural Earth 1:10m rivers and lake centrelines (version 5.0.0, public domain), clipped to the twenty countries covered; the Orontes, Litani, Karun and Medjerda, which that layer does not include, are added as dashed schematic lines drawn by the editors, not surveyed courses. Lakes and reservoirs: HydroLAKES v1.0. Transboundary aquifers: IGRAC (2025); river basins: TFDD Spatial Database (7 August 2024), a product of the Transboundary Freshwater Diplomacy Database, Oregon State University. Climate & drought overlay: the annual-rainfall bands of the country maps (WorldClim 2.1, 1970–2000 climatology at 30 arc-seconds; Fick & Hijmans 2017), each clipped to its own country and joined; the temperature lines and climate projections stay on the country maps, because their thresholds are set country by country. Demand overlay: the admin-region populations shown on each country map, approximate, from the national sources and UN estimates named there and in each circle’s tooltip; where a country map shows only its largest provinces or cities, so does this layer, and Bahrain has none. The plant counts above count register records with a map point, so a plant tracked in phases or units counts once per record; register dams are drawn with the AQUASTAT dams and replace the AQUASTAT point where both mark the same dam. The Golan Heights have been occupied by Israel since 1967; UN Security Council resolution 497 (1981) declared Israel’s decision to impose its laws, jurisdiction and administration there null and void. Shown as a separate area, bounded by dashed lines. The area as drawn includes the Shebaa Farms, which Lebanon claims; the UN Secretary-General reported in 2000 that these farmlands lie in the area of operations of the UN Disengagement Observer Force and in an area occupied by Israel since 1967 (S/2000/460, paragraph 17). Golan outline: GADM, as carried by WRI Aqueduct 4.0.