Water Atlas
Water World / 01
Globe
Plan
Section
Layers
Reservoirs
10
Lakes & inland seas
13
Tide gauges
10
River gauges
10
Canals & waterways
7
Dams & barriers
17
Desalination
9
Cloud seeding
5
Ranked · Level (percentile) · 2026
percentile
anomaly
trend
01
Suez Canal
Egypt · illustrative
P0
02
Lake Erie
United States / Canada · illustrative
P1
03
Glen Canyon Dam
United States · illustrative
P2
04
Aswan High Dam
Egypt · illustrative
P2
05
Lake Volta
Ghana · illustrative
P3
06
IJsselmeer
Netherlands · illustrative
P3
07
Afsluitdijk
Netherlands · illustrative
P3
08
Shasta Lake
United States · illustrative
P4
09
Grand Canal (Beijing-Hangzhou)
China · illustrative
P4
10
Caspian Sea
Five littoral states · curated
P5
11
Lake Nasser
Egypt / Sudan · illustrative
P10
12
Stockholm
Sweden · curated
P10
13
Lake Mead
United States · curated
P12
14
Itaipu Reservoir
Brazil / Paraguay · illustrative
P13
15
Aral Sea (South)
Uzbekistan / Kazakhstan · curated
P15
16
Lake Baikal
Russia · illustrative
P16
17
Great Salt Lake
United States · curated
P19
18
Lake Urmia
Iran · curated
P24
19
Lake Powell
United States · curated
P25
20
Salton Sea
United States · curated
P28
21
Lake Superior
United States / Canada · illustrative
P29
22
Hoover Dam
United States · illustrative
P35
23
Lake Titicaca
Peru / Bolivia · illustrative
P37
24
MOSE Barrier, Venice
Italy · illustrative
P39
25
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Ethiopia · illustrative
P45
26
Belo Monte Dam
Brazil · illustrative
P45
27
Lake Chad
Chad / Nigeria / Niger / Cameroon · curated
P47
28
Lake Michigan–Huron
United States / Canada · curated
P50
29
Karakum Canal
Turkmenistan · illustrative
P53
30
Central Arizona Project
United States · illustrative
P53
31
Oroville Dam
United States · illustrative
P56
32
Gatun Lake
Panama · curated
P57
33
Panama Canal
Panama · illustrative
P62
34
Akosombo Dam
Ghana · illustrative
P72
35
Thames Barrier
United Kingdom · illustrative
P73
36
Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam
Russia · illustrative
P74
37
Lake Oroville
United States · illustrative
P75
38
Lake Kariba
Zambia / Zimbabwe · illustrative
P75
39
Kariba Dam
Zambia / Zimbabwe · illustrative
P78
40
California Aqueduct
United States · illustrative
P81
41
Grand Coulee Dam
United States · illustrative
P82
42
Lake Victoria
Uganda / Kenya / Tanzania · curated
P83
43
Tarbela Dam
Pakistan · illustrative
P83
44
All-American Canal
United States · illustrative
P85
45
Three Gorges Dam
China · illustrative
P92
46
Itaipu Dam
Brazil / Paraguay · illustrative
P94
47
Atatürk Dam
Türkiye · illustrative
P95
48
Key West
United States · illustrative
P97
49
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands · illustrative
P97
50
Three Gorges Reservoir
China · curated
P100
51
The Battery, New York
United States · curated
P100
52
San Francisco (Golden Gate)
United States · curated
P100
53
Honolulu
United States · curated
P100
54
Galveston Pier 21
United States · curated
P100
55
Brest
France · curated
P100
56
Sydney, Fort Denison
Australia · curated
P100
57
Mumbai (Apollo Bandar)
India · illustrative
P100
1905 · Salton Sea created by canal failure
1914 · Panama Canal opens; Gatun Lake filled
1922 · Colorado River Compact signed
1932 · Afsluitdijk closes the Zuiderzee
1936 · Hoover Dam commissioned
1941 · Lake Mead reaches first fill
1954 · Karakum Canal construction begins
1960 · Aral Sea diversions begin
1963 · Lake Powell begins filling
1983 · Colorado Basin flood peak
1990 · Atatürk Dam fills; Euphrates briefly cut
1993 · Central Arizona Project completed
1993 · Satellite altimetry era begins
1997 · Millennium Drought, Australia
2000 · Colorado River megadrought begins
2010 · Three Gorges reaches 175 m
2013 · Sorek A online
2015 · Carlsbad online
2017 · Oroville spillway crisis
2018 · Cape Town 'Day Zero' averted
2020 · GERD filling begins
2020 · MOSE first operational closure
2022 · Yangtze drought & heat wave
2022 · Lake Mead record low
2022 · Great Salt Lake all-time low
2023 · Amazon record low water
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