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Dominican Republic Water

Water Precipitation in the Dominican Republic

Water Precipitation in depth
1,410 mm/year
Long-term average annual precipitation in depth (mm/year 2017)
Water precipitation in volume
68.6 billion m³/year
(Long-term average annual precipitation in volume (billion m³/year 2017)

Water Resources in the Dominican Republic

This is the sum of renewable groundwater and renewable surface water resources (both internal and external)

Renewable Water Resources
24 billion m³/year
Total Renewable Water Resources (2017)
Water Resources per Capita
2,183 m³/person/year
Renewable Water per Inhabitant (2017)
Water Dependency
0 %
Water from outside the country (2017)

Water Use in the Dominican Republic


Total, by Sector, and by Year

Notes: Years with missing data left empty.
Water use can include water used and then returned to its source (renewable resource).

People with no access to a safe drinking water source in the Dominican Republic

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Don't have access to safe drinking water
1,592,092 people
15.3 % of the population of the Dominican Republic (2015)

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