Africa National Groundwater Databases

Country	National groundwater data(bases)	Who manages database?	More details of database and stored data	Data collection – who, how, what	Is database accessible
Algerie/Algeria	Groundwater level database	Agence Nationale des Ressources Hydrauliques (ANRH)	Groundwater level data from national monitoring network of c.500 piezometers	ANRH measure groundwater levels twice yearly	Unknown
Algerie/Algeria	National groundwater quality database	Agence Nationale des Ressources Hydrauliques (ANRH)	SIQEAU: stores groundwater quality data collected from national monitoring network of c.550 sites: physicochemical analysis (including SEC & nitrogen); heavy metals; also bacteriological?	ANRH sample the groundwater quality monitoring network quarterly for physicochemical analysis and twice yearly for heavy metals.	Unknown
Angola	Water point database	National Directorate for Water (DNA)	Data on water boreholes and hand dug wells, including location, depth and operational status. Probably no groundwater data.	DNA carry out annual survey of water borehole & HDW operational status. Drillers required to submit details of new boreholes	Unknown
Benin	Water point database	Probably General Directorate of Water (DG-Eau)	Data on >15,000 water boreholes and wells. No geological logs, and probably limited groundwater data		Unknown
Botswana	Integrated Groundwater Resource Data Management System	Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), within Ministry of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services (MLMWS)	Integrated Groundwater Resource Data Management System (IGWRMS): new database project started in 2020 for data on drilled boreholes and data from monitoring of groundwater levels, groundwater quality and groundwater abstraction. Unclear when the database will be fully operational.		Intended to be, via web-based platform
Botswana	Water point database	Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS)	Register of drilled water boreholes. Intended to be replaced by IGWRMS?	Drillers required to provide information on drilled boreholes.	Unknown
Botswana	Groundwater level database	Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS)	Groundwater level data from national monitoring network of c. 1000 piezometers. Intended to be replaced by IGWRMS?	Drillers required to provide information on drilled boreholes.	Unknown
Botswana	Groundwater level and abstraction database	Water Utilities Corporation (WUC)	Groundwater level data from c.100 monitoring boreholes in c. 10 supply wellfields; and possibly also some groundwater abstraction data?		Unknown
Burkina Faso	Water point database	Direction Générale des Ressources en Eau (DGRE) within Ministere de l’Environment et de L’Eau (MEE)	Inventaire National des Ouvrages (INO), stores water point data including location, type of well and pump, and water use. Limited information on borehole depth, geology or yield		Unknown
	Groundwater level database	Groundwater level data from national monitoring network (Réseau piézométrique national, RPN) of c.125 observation boreholes at c. 60 sites (in 2017) (some sites with multiple observation boreholes and some boreholes with multiple piezometers at different depths), of which c. 75% were operational	Groundwater levels generally meant to be measured at least twice a week and data transferred to the central DGRE office		Unknown
	National water information system	Probably DGRE	Système national d’information sur l’eau, (SNIEAU): launched in 2003 but may not be fully functional		Unknown
Burundi	Water point database	Probably Directorate of Water Resources (DRH), within Directorate General for Water and Energy (DGEE), within Ministry of Water, Energy and Mines (MWEM)	Data on springs (the most common water point), boreholes and hand dug wells, but apparently with limited information.		Unknown
Cameroon	Water point database	Water Information System Unit, within Ministry of Water and Energy (MWE)	Information on drilled boreholes	Drillers required to supply data to MWE	Unknown
Central African Republic (CAR)	None known
Chad	Water point database	Direction de Nationale de l’Hydraulique	Information on >10,000 boreholes & wells, including location and often static groundwater level. No geological data and limited groundwater quality data		Unknown
	Water point database	Ministère de l’Hydraulique Urbaine et Rurale (MHUR)	Système d'Information Tchadien sur l'Eau (Water Information System of Chad) (SITEAU): water point database with water quality data, stratigraphic logs and possibly other hydrogeological data. Database was incomplete/out of date at start of ResEAU project & upgrading it was an activity within ResEAU	Data on all boreholes drilled for MHUR are meant to be submitted	In theory people can register for access to database
Comoros	Thought to be but no details known	Direction Générale de l’Energie, des Mines et des Ressources en Eau
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	No national water point database No national groundwater monitoring databases || Some regional datasets are stored by NGOs and mining companies, including in Katanga, South Kivu, North Kivu, Kasai and Oriental Provinces || || No national groundwater monitoring programmes, for spring flows, groundwater levels or groundwater quality ||
Congo, Republic of the	None known
Cote d’Ivoire	Water point databases	Separate databases in different rural water supply subdirections of the Department of Water, within Ministry of Economic Infrastructure (MIE)	Water point type (borehole, hand dug well); type of water use		Unknown
Djibouti	Water point database	Possibly the Water Directorate, within the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and the Sea (MAEM)	Information on at least 600 water points, including whether functional or not	An inventory was done in 1993. Not known if this has been updated.	Unknown
Egypt	None known
Equatorial Guinea	None known
Eritrea	None known