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Water Atlas
Water World / 01
Globe
Plan
Section
About
Layers
Reservoirs
10
Lakes & inland seas
13
Tide gauges
11
River gauges
10
Canals & waterways
27
Dams & barriers
17
Desalination
9
Cloud seeding
5
River deltas
10
Snowpack
6
Aquifers
6
Reuse & harvesting
6
Ranked · Level (percentile) · 2026
percentile
anomaly
trend
01
Suez Canal
Egypt · illustrative
P0
02
Danube Delta
Romania / Ukraine · illustrative
P0
03
Colorado River Delta
Mexico · illustrative
P0
04
Lake Erie
United States / Canada · illustrative
P1
05
White Sea-Baltic Canal
Russia · illustrative
P1
06
Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Delta
Netherlands · illustrative
P1
07
Yellow River Delta
China · illustrative
P1
08
Glen Canyon Dam
United States · illustrative
P2
09
Aswan High Dam
Egypt · illustrative
P2
10
Mekong Delta
Vietnam · illustrative
P2
11
Lake Volta
Ghana · illustrative
P3
12
IJsselmeer
Netherlands · illustrative
P3
13
Delta-Mendota Canal
United States · illustrative
P3
14
Afsluitdijk
Netherlands · illustrative
P3
15
Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta
Bangladesh / India · illustrative
P3
16
Shasta Lake
United States · illustrative
P4
17
Grand Canal (Beijing-Hangzhou)
China · illustrative
P4
18
Nile Delta
Egypt · illustrative
P4
19
Mississippi River Delta
United States · illustrative
P4
20
Caspian Sea
Five littoral states · curated
P5
21
Indus Delta
Pakistan · illustrative
P6
22
Niger Delta
Nigeria · illustrative
P7
23
Friant-Kern Canal
United States · illustrative
P9
24
Lake Nasser
Egypt / Sudan · illustrative
P10
25
Stockholm
Sweden · curated
P10
26
Lake Mead
United States · curated
P12
27
Itaipu Reservoir
Brazil / Paraguay · illustrative
P13
28
Aral Sea (South)
Uzbekistan / Kazakhstan · curated
P15
29
Lake Baikal
Russia · illustrative
P16
30
Great Salt Lake
United States · curated
P19
31
Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
Netherlands · illustrative
P19
32
Rhine-Main-Danube Canal
Germany · illustrative
P22
33
Volga-Don Canal
Russia · illustrative
P22
34
Lake Urmia
Iran · curated
P24
35
Lake Powell
United States · curated
P25
36
Great Man-Made River
Libya · illustrative
P27
37
Salton Sea
United States · curated
P28
38
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
United States · illustrative
P28
39
Lake Superior
United States / Canada · illustrative
P29
40
Hoover Dam
United States · illustrative
P35
41
Lake Titicaca
Peru / Bolivia · illustrative
P37
42
MOSE Barrier, Venice
Italy · illustrative
P39
43
Canal du Midi
France · illustrative
P43
44
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
Ethiopia · illustrative
P45
45
Belo Monte Dam
Brazil · illustrative
P45
46
Lake Chad
Chad / Nigeria / Niger / Cameroon · curated
P47
47
Lake Michigan–Huron
United States / Canada · curated
P50
48
South-North Water Transfer, Central Route
China · illustrative
P50
49
Karakum Canal
Turkmenistan · illustrative
P53
50
Central Arizona Project
United States · illustrative
P53
51
Oroville Dam
United States · illustrative
P56
52
Gatun Lake
Panama · curated
P57
53
Corinth Canal
Greece · illustrative
P59
54
Panama Canal
Panama · illustrative
P62
55
Erie Canal
United States · illustrative
P64
56
Kiel Canal
Germany · illustrative
P66
57
Akosombo Dam
Ghana · illustrative
P72
58
Thames Barrier
United Kingdom · illustrative
P73
59
Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam
Russia · illustrative
P74
60
Lake Oroville
United States · illustrative
P75
61
Lake Kariba
Zambia / Zimbabwe · illustrative
P75
62
Kariba Dam
Zambia / Zimbabwe · illustrative
P78
63
Indira Gandhi Canal
India · illustrative
P78
64
California Aqueduct
United States · illustrative
P81
65
Göta Canal
Sweden · illustrative
P81
66
Grand Coulee Dam
United States · illustrative
P82
67
Lake Victoria
Uganda / Kenya / Tanzania · curated
P83
68
Tarbela Dam
Pakistan · illustrative
P83
69
Welland Canal
Canada · illustrative
P84
70
All-American Canal
United States · illustrative
P85
71
Colorado River Aqueduct
United States · illustrative
P86
72
Three Gorges Dam
China · illustrative
P92
73
Los Angeles Aqueduct
United States · illustrative
P93
74
Upper Ganga Canal
India · illustrative
P93
75
Jonglei Canal
South Sudan · illustrative
P93
76
Itaipu Dam
Brazil / Paraguay · illustrative
P94
77
Atatürk Dam
Türkiye · illustrative
P95
78
Key West
United States · illustrative
P97
79
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall Islands · illustrative
P97
80
Global mean sea level
Global · curated
P99
81
Three Gorges Reservoir
China · curated
P100
82
The Battery, New York
United States · curated
P100
83
San Francisco (Golden Gate)
United States · curated
P100
84
Honolulu
United States · curated
P100
85
Galveston Pier 21
United States · curated
P100
86
Brest
France · curated
P100
87
Sydney, Fort Denison
Australia · curated
P100
88
Mumbai (Apollo Bandar)
India · illustrative
P100
1681 · Canal du Midi completed
1825 · Erie Canal opens
1854 · Upper Ganga Canal opens
1869 · Suez Canal opens
1893 · Corinth Canal opens
1895 · Kiel Canal opens
1900 · The Chicago River is reversed
1905 · Salton Sea created by canal failure
1913 · Los Angeles Aqueduct opens
1914 · Panama Canal opens; Gatun Lake filled
1922 · Colorado River Compact signed
1932 · Afsluitdijk closes the Zuiderzee
1933 · White Sea-Baltic Canal completed
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
1984 · Jonglei Canal abandoned
1990 · Atatürk Dam fills; Euphrates briefly cut
1992 · Rhine-Main-Danube Canal completed
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
2014 · South-North Water Transfer central route opens
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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