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Finding Data

You can find data available to you through Princeton by searching the Data Catalog and using "Water" as a search term in the search box. You can further narrow down the search by selecting specific countries.

You may also search for data at the following data repositories:

Harvard Dataverse Repository - Harvard Dataverse is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. for research data.

OpenICPSR - A service of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), openICPSR is a self-publishing repository for social, behavioral, and health sciences research data. openICPSR is particularly well-suited for the deposit of replication data sets for researchers who need to publish their raw data associated with a journal article so that other researchers can replicate their findings.

World Development Indicators
Development indicators from the World Bank. Covers population, education, health, aid, poverty and environmental indicators for 217 countries.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources
Water information is fundamental to national and local economic well-being, protection of life and property, and effective management of the Nation’s water resources. The USGS works with partners to monitor, assess, conduct targeted research, and deliver information on a wide range of water resources and conditions including streamflow, groundwater, water quality, and water use and availability.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) - Ocean
The USGS brings state-of-the-art ocean research and scientific information to policymakers, resource managers, and the public in order to sustainably manage our limited marine resources.
Water Point Data Exchange
The WPDx Data Standard was collaboratively designed for data collection from rural areas at the water point or small water scheme level. The core parameters included in the WPDx Data Standard are parameters which are commonly measured by governments, non-governmental organizations, and researchers to enable easy sharing without changing the types of data typically collected.
HarDWR - Harmonized Water Rights Records
Dataset of western U.S. water rights records that provides consistent unique identifiers for each spatial unit of water management across the domain, unique identifiers for each water right record, and a consistent categorization scheme that puts each water right record into one of 7 broad use categories.

Public Opinion Data

iPoll Databank (Roper)
Largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Contains over 790,000 questions and over 25,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms.
Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.