Liberia Reservoir Transparency

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: Liberia's only significant hydropower infrastructure is the Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant (80 MW), a run-of-river facility on the St. Paul River with no meaningful storage reservoir (dependable dry-season capacity is only 10 MW due to river flow variability). LEC publishes occasional press releases referencing generation figures (e.g., annual average ~202 GWh over the crediting period), but no systematic reservoir level, storage volume, or inflow data is published. The Liberia Data Portal exists but contains no water or reservoir datasets.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: LEC press releases and news statements are available as web pages (HTML) rather than structured data. The Liberia Open Data Portal (liberia.opendataforafrica.org) exists but contains only SDG indicator summaries at county level, with no water or energy time-series data and no regular update cadence. There is no API, no downloadable dataset, and no machine-readable publication of any reservoir or water storage data.

Capacity-weighted (v1.3.0): 0/~10 Mm³ = 0% (Mount Coffee is run-of-river with negligible regulated storage; structural near-zero denominator and no public data). Prior justification (preserved for context): Methodology denominator counts reservoirs with capacity >10 hm³. Liberia has zero qualifying reservoirs: Mount Coffee HPP (80 MW installed, 10 MW dry-season dependable) is a run-of-river facility with negligible impoundment, and LWSC operates river intakes for Monrovia rather than storage reservoirs. With no large reservoirs in the denominator, coverage is structurally zero. Coverage = round(100 × 0 / 0) is undefined; scored as 0 to reflect the absence of any qualifying public-data target.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: Mount Coffee was rehabilitated and recommissioned in December 2016 after decades of civil-war damage. An annual report from the REPP programme (2019) and MCC ESIA documentation provide project-level historical data, but this material is produced by international donors rather than Liberian government agencies and does not constitute a publicly maintained national time series. No official historical storage or flow archive is accessible.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: LEC publishes performance press releases sporadically — roughly quarterly to annually — containing high-level generation figures. There is no regular, scheduled publication of water resource or reservoir data. The GCC carbon project generates annual verified generation reports, but these are not operated by LEC as a transparency measure.

Coverage is 0 (no national reservoirs >10 hm³ with public data). Quality dimensions for the COVERED subset are therefore 0 by definition. Original notes preserved below: The MCC-funded ESIA and the Global Carbon Council's verified carbon project both contain methodology documentation for flow measurement and generation accounting at Mount Coffee. However, these are donor/certification documents rather than Liberian government publications. LEC does not publish sensor specifications, gauge station metadata, or QC protocols. The Winrock International water resources profile identifies data gaps as a major sectoral challenge.

English is Liberia's official language and all government and LEC communications are in English. The LEC website, LWSC website, and Liberia Data Portal are in English with serviceable interfaces. The Open Government Partnership commitments (LR0026, LR0036) are documented in English and follow international standards. However, the absence of actual water data means language usability provides no practical benefit for reservoir transparency.