Water Research Observatory
Please note the data platform is currently unavailable due to maintenance and improvements that are being made. Please contact Michael van der Laan (vanderLaanM@arc.agric.za) if you are looking for any specific datasets.
The Water Research Observatory is a cloud-based data portal belonging to South Africa's Water Research Commission (WRC). It brings together important water-related datasets and information, including past research and current monitoring data, to enable big data analytics and the sustainable management of water resources.
Users are encouraged to register on our data platform to start discovering and uploading data.
Click here to download the WRO User Guide.
For various sources of weather data, please see our Climate and Weather page