Haiti Reservoir Transparency

Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: Haiti's principal reservoir is Lac de Péligre on the Artibonite River (~300 Mm³ effective storage after 60 years of sedimentation reduced capacity from the original ~1,000 Mm³). Operated by EDH (Electricité d'Haïti), the dam generates roughly 54 MW and is the country's main hydropower asset. EDH publishes no water-level, storage, or inflow data for Péligre. The national hydrometric network is almost entirely non-functional: a USACE assessment found only 3 of 35 gauging stations operational and 75% of hydrometeorological gauges offline. No open data portal for reservoir data exists at EDH or any other government body.

Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No machine-readable data, API, or downloadable datasets exist from EDH or any Haitian government source. Political instability since 2010 and successive crises (earthquake, cholera, assassination of President Moïse, gang territorial control of infrastructure corridors) have severely degraded what little institutional data infrastructure previously existed. The EDH website, when functional, contains no hydrological section.

Capacity-weighted (v1.3.0): ~80/1,000 Mm³ ≈ 8% (Péligre dam dominates the national denominator; EDH publishes only internal/fragmentary operational data — no public feed, and the national hydrometric network is largely non-functional with only 3 of 35 gauging stations operational per USACE). Prior justification (preserved for context): Methodology denominator counts reservoirs with capacity >10 hm³. Haiti has 1 qualifying reservoir: Lac de Péligre (~300 Mm³ effective storage, originally ~1,000 Mm³ before sedimentation halved capacity). Smaller irrigation structures in the Artibonite valley are below threshold. Péligre has no public storage data: EDH publishes nothing, and the national hydrometric network is non-functional (only 3 of 35 gauging stations operational per USACE assessment). Coverage = round(100 × 0 / 1) = 0.

Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: Historical sedimentation studies (notably Cas historique de sédimentation du barrage Péligre) and USACE assessments contain pre-crisis data, but these are externally produced and not published by Haiti. No continuous national time series accessible to the public exists. Research-grade data exists in fragmented foreign archives only.

Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No regular or periodic public publication cycle for reservoir data. EDH does not release operational data on Péligre water levels or generation capacity utilisation. Gang control of roads connecting Péligre to Port-au-Prince has further disrupted operational monitoring since 2022.

Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: No published measurement methodology, gauge calibration records, or quality standards exist from Haitian government sources. GE Vernova (formerly Alstom), which maintains Péligre's turbines, holds operational records internally but does not publish them.

French is an international language and Haiti's co-official language alongside Haitian Creole. Any future data publication in French would be broadly accessible without translation barriers for a large portion of the international research community. The score reflects this latent accessibility advantage, though it is currently irrelevant given the absence of any published data.