gluwasp: The global urban water supply database.

Description Usage Format Source Examples

Description

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Usage

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Format

A data frame with columns:

city

Name of the city

country

Name of the country

pop

Population served by the supply system (millions)

access

Share of popultion with access to piped water (percent)

demand_total

Total average annual demand (million cubic meters)

demand_dmstc

Total average annual demand of households only (million cubic meters)

storage

Total effective reservoir storage (million cubic meters)

catch_type

Catchment type: protected, unprotected, mixed

surface, ground, desal, recyc

Percentage of average annual supply delivered by surface, groundwater, and unconventional resources respectively

treat_cap

Capacity of treatment facilities (million cubic meteres per day)

treat_main, treat_sec

Main and secondary modes of purification by plant capacity

adv_treatment

Logical: is there significant advanced treatment (e.g., activated carbon)

disinf_main

Primary means of disinfection

fluorid

Logical: is there fluoridation of supply?

unit_cost

Unit cost of water for rate payers (USD per m3 supplied)

leakage

Catchment area upsteam of reservoirs (square kilometeres)

meter_pen

Catchment area upsteam of reservoirs (square kilometeres)

business_model

Business model of water supply

revenue_source

Primary source of revenue

cost_rec

Logical: do user payments cover costs of supply?

finance

Primary mode of infrastructure finance

Source

Multiple sources (see extdata directory)

Examples

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