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Facility data · coverage maturity

What is known, unknown and still missing.

Every country/territory and facility class is measured separately. “Complete” requires at least 95% of an authoritative denominator plus recurring refresh; no denominator means never 100%.

Validating current coverage

Rechecking source rights and the current public facility state…

Global source and rights ledger

42 facility sources classified

All 249 ISO jurisdictions exist in the ledger: 47 are at C1 and 202 remain C0. A global candidate layer never marks a country as researched by itself.

approved_publish · 6approved_candidate · 8pending · 24blocked · 4expired · 0

83 / 5,229 country/facility-class pairs have a country-scoped source; all others remain explicit C0 gaps.

SourceRightsCountriesClassesLead denominator
Sandre wastewater treatment systems
france-sandre-treatment-systems
pendingFRmunicipal_wastewater22,000
Environment Agency discharge permits and public registers
uk-environment-agency-permits
pendingGBindustrial_wastewater, municipal_wastewater, stormwater_treatmentunknown
China national pollutant discharge permit partner export
china-mee-discharge-permits
pendingCNindustrial_wastewater, landfill_leachate, mine_water, municipal_wastewaterunknown
China MEE centralized wastewater facility lists and national denominator
china-mee-centralized-wastewater-facilities
pendingCNindustrial_wastewater, municipal_wastewater, other_treatmentunknown
Korea Environment Corporation public wastewater facility inventory
korea-keco-public-wastewater
approved_publishKRmunicipal_wastewater4,469
Japan MLIT sewerage statistics and facility data
japan-mlit-sewerage
pendingJPmunicipal_wastewater, sludge_biosolids, water_reuse_reclamationunknown
India CPCB sewage treatment plant inventories
india-cpcb-stp
pendingINindustrial_wastewater, municipal_wastewaterunknown
Climate Resilient Water Sources inventory
australia-bom-crews
pendingAUdesalination, water_reuse_reclamationunknown
Hinekorako public drinking-water and wastewater register
new-zealand-hinekorako
pendingNZdrinking_water_treatment, municipal_wastewaterunknown
South Africa DWS Green Drop, Blue Drop, IRIS and NIWIS
south-africa-dws-drop
pendingZAdrinking_water_treatment, municipal_wastewater1,003

Lead denominators describe likely source volume only. They are not authoritative facility denominators and do not produce a coverage percentage unless the source ledger explicitly records a denominator definition.

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Facility coverage ledger · WaterAtlas