GIS Resources

Water Data

Calgary

• Hydrology shapefiles download from Calgary Open Data portal

Alberta

• Data files
  • Alberta water stations map click the station markers for real-time and historic levels and flow
  • Alberta River Basins stations levels and flow
  • Alberta River Water Quality Index
• Spatial (GIS) files
  • AltaLIS water files download from SANDS file server
  • DMTI 2020 download from SANDS file server WaterLineAB, WaterbodiesRegionAB
• Watersheds/drainage boundaries
  • Watersheds of Alberta download from SANDS file server
  • PFRA prairie watersheds 2013 download
• Groundwater
  • Alberta Water Wells search for wells and reports
  • Alberta Groundwater Resources
  • groundwater well layer file on GeoDiscover also Alberta Geospatial Services Platform
  • Alberta Geological Survey reports
    • Groundwater Resources of the City of Calgary and Vicinity Bulletin 008
    • Compilation of Alberta Groundwater Information Open File reports 2009-02 & 0003
    • Edmonton-Calgary Corridor Groundwater Atlas
  • HCL Groundwater Reports includes many counties and MDs
• Licenses
  • Alberta Water License Viewer
  • Alberta Water Use Report (AER)

Canada

• Water Survey of Canada - hydrometric data: discharge (flow), water level, sediment load, by station, real-time and historic
• DMTI 2020 Water Lines & Waterbodies download from SANDS file server

United States

• National Hydrography Dataset & Watershed Boundary Dataset

North America

• North American River Width Data Set - measurements of North American major rivers at approximate mean discharge

International

• Global Watersheds

  • If you want to download geodata of your watershed or flowpath, first check the "Make downloadable" box under options, then create a new watershed. Any new watershed you make while the box is checked will be saved on the server and ready for download.

    Three download formats are available:

    • Shapefile, for use with any GIS software. Note that this is really a set of five files in a .zip archive. To use these files, you usually have to unzip the files into a folder on your computer.
    • KML, for display in Google Earth, Google Maps, or imported into a variety of mapping software.
    • GeoJSON, a plain text format that can be used in many applications -- especially popular with developers.
• HydroSHEDS
  • HydroSHEDS is a mapping product that provides hydrographic information for regional and global-scale applications in a consistent format. It offers a suite of geo-referenced data sets (vector & raster) at various scales, including river networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions, and flow accumulations. HydroSHEDS is based on high-resolution elevation data obtained during a Space Shuttle flight for NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).
• HydroWASTE
  • HydroWASTE is a spatially-explicit global database of 58,502 WWTPs and their characteristics. This database was developed by combining national and regional datasets with auxiliary information to derive or complete missing WWTP characteristics, including the amount of people served. A high-resolution river network with streamflow estimates (HydroATLAS: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9890531) was used to georeference WWTP outfall locations and calculate each plant’s dilution factor (i.e., the ratio of the natural discharge of the receiving waterbody to the WWTP effluent discharge).
• Global Dam Tracker - A database of more than 35,000 dams with location, catchment, and attribute information