Nile Basin Information Systems

The Nile Basin Drought Early Warning System (Nile DEWS) developed, in 2025 at ENTRO, to monitor & forecast meteorological drought, hydrological drought, and agricultural drought in the Nile basin over 84 sub-basins and also at various grid scales to help mitigate the drought impact across the Nile basin.

The Nile Basin Flash Flood Early Warning System (NB-FFEWS) is a near real time forecast system developed by NELSAP-CU with support from World Bank- CIWA. The purpose of the system is to contribute towards enhancing preparedness and resilience of communities in the Nile Basin countries to flash flood disasters.

The NBI water quality database was launched in 2023. Its purpose is to centralise data from water quality monitoring campaigns acquired by the member countries of the Nile Basin Initiative, as well as data from continuous monitoring of water quality throughout the basin. 

The NBI Dams Database was launched in 2024. Its purpose is to centralise informations on dams located in the Nile Basin Initiative countries. The aim of this database is to provide the most complete and up-to-date inventory of the basin's dams and their key characteristics in order to improve dam safety management. The database is regularly updated by the NBI member countries and currently contains more than 800 dams records.

Nile-SEC has implemented, with the financial support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), its first groundwater study project with the objective of enhancing knowledge and capacity for sustainable use and management of trans-boundary aquifers and aquifers of regional significance in the Nile Basin.  
 

The program envisages to improve mechanisms for cooperation on water resources management and development in the Nile Basin. In this perspective, the general scope of the present web platform is to promote the cooperation among Eastern Nile (EN) riparian countries by focusing on providing Water Resources Planning (WRP) models and tools, data and information packages, knowledge products, and services to WRP and management activities in the EN sub-basins.