Paraguay is a landlocked country with enormous water resources—from rivers with dams that generate hydroelectric power to sharing the world’s largest freshwater aquifer with Brazil and Bolivia. But persistent challenges in managing these resources have resulted in lost economic opportunities for the country and unmet water and sanitation needs among Paraguayans.
In this context, Paraguay launched a multi-year process in 2019 to develop a system for sharing data to manage the country’s water resources more effectively. The result of this process, a new Water Information System (WIS), launched in March 2023, providing data publicly to be used to improve water resource management and access to safe drinking water and sanitation services across the country.
