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Türkiye's water data and water law, in one place

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Open data API

v2 recommended · one OpenAPI 3.1 file · CORS open · measurements and projections kept apart.

Summary

Free JSON API on Türkiye's water and water law, no authentication: 25 river basins, 81 provinces, daily dam fill, satellite water-storage trends, Official Gazette records, verified court decisions and a statutory glossary. Every response carries source, licence and the date of the data.

v2 endpoints

Each response is { meta, veri } (veri = data). The files are static and served from the CDN; no key is needed and CORS is open (Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *).

EndpointContents
/api/v2/havzalar.json25 river basins: DSİ figures, dam fill, satellite trend, published plans
/api/v2/havza/{slug}.jsonOne basin: summary + daily dam-fill average + monthly satellite series
/api/v2/iller.json81 provinces: DSİ regional directorate, water utility, basins, Official Gazette record count
/api/v2/baraj.jsonDam fill: national and basin averages (single definition)
/api/v2/uydu.jsonSatellite water storage: Türkiye monthly series + basin trends
/api/v2/tahmin.jsonStatistical projection (not a measurement)
/api/v2/resmi-gazete.jsonOfficial Gazette groundwater operating-area and closure records
/api/v2/emsal.jsonCourt decisions verified on the official decision search server
/api/v2/sozluk.jsonGlossary: statutory definitions quoted verbatim (Turkish)

Specification: /api/openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1). Downloadable CSV and GeoJSON files: open data. Translated data pages: Türkiye's water.

Quick start

# Basins: dam fill and satellite trend
curl -s https://suharitasi.com/api/v2/havzalar.json | jq '.veri[] | {ad, baraj, uydu}'

# One basin: daily dam-fill average
curl -s https://suharitasi.com/api/v2/havza/gediz.json | jq '.veri.baraj_gunluk_ortalama[-3:]'

# OpenAPI 3.1
curl -s https://suharitasi.com/api/openapi.json | jq '.paths | keys'

Python

import json, urllib.request

with urllib.request.urlopen("https://suharitasi.com/api/v2/baraj.json") as r:
    d = json.load(r)

print(d["meta"]["veri_tarihi"], d["veri"]["ulusal"]["ortalama_doluluk_yuzde"])

Field names

Field names are Turkish, lower case, with a unit suffix (_yuzde percent, _km2 km², _km3 km³, _hm3 hm³, _cm_yil cm per year, _puan percentage points). They are the API contract and do not change with the language of this page.

FieldMeaning
meta.veri_tarihidate of the data itself (latest measurement), not the build date
meta.uretim_zamanibuild time of the file
meta.kaynaklar / meta.lisanssources and licence of this response
ad, havza, il, ilcelername, basin, province, districts
yagis_alani_km2catchment area, km²
yuzey_suyu_potansiyeli_km3surface-water potential, km³ per year (DSİ statistics)
yas_isletme_rezervi_hm3, yas_beslenimi_hm3groundwater operating reserve and recharge, hm³ per year
ortalama_doluluk_yuzdeaverage reservoir fill, % (simple average of reporting EPİAŞ reservoirs)
degisim_30_gun_puanchange over 30 days, percentage points
olcum_tarihi, baraj_sayisimeasurement date, number of reporting reservoirs
egilim_cm_yil, sinif, penceresatellite water-storage trend in cm per year, its class, the time window
projeksiyon, alt80/ust80, alt95/ust95projection and its 80 % / 95 % lower and upper bounds
mk_z, mk_p, mk_anlamliMann-Kendall trend test: z score, p value, significant or not
rg_kayit_sayisi, rg_sayisinumber of Official Gazette records; Official Gazette issue number
saha, durum, mevzuat_turuoperating-area name, status of the notice, type of legislation
dsi_bolgeleri (no, merkez), su_idaresiDSİ regional directorates (number, seat), water and sewerage utility
merci, esas, karar, karar_tarihi, resmi_dogrulamachamber, docket number, decision number, decision date, official verification record
planlar.*_planipublished basin plans: river basin management, drought management, flood management, sectoral allocation, basin protection

Measurements and projections

/api/v2/tahmin.json is a statistical projection (seasonal decomposition, least-squares trend, Mann-Kendall test, with uncertainty bands). It is not a measurement and must be labelled "Su Haritası projection" when reused. All other endpoints carry compiled observations from official sources.

Rate limits

The static v2 files have no rate limit. The function endpoints (/api/v1/havzalar, /api/v1/kuraklik and the MCP endpoint) allow 60 requests per minute per client, counted separately for each endpoint. Above that the v1 endpoints return 429 with Retry-After: 60; the MCP endpoint returns 429 with a JSON-RPC error. The rate-limit counter keys clients by a hash of IP and user agent. Separately, these endpoints keep a 30-day access log with the IP address, endpoint, status code and time (privacy notice, in Turkish).

Status: data freshness

Latest data date and expected update interval per data source (source:/veri/veri-tazelik.json). The source has published no new dam-fill measurement on weekends so far; the date shown is the latest measurement day.

DataLatest dataUpdatesStatus
Dam fill (EPİAŞ)2026-11-06daily (working days)current
Precipitation (CHIRPS v3.0)2026-10-01monthly (preliminary early in the month, final about week 3)current
Satellite water storage (GRACE)2026-03-01monthly (source publishes 2–3 months behind)source delay (no new publication yet)
Official source record (Official Gazette table of contents, daily)2026-11-07dailycurrent
Land consolidation decisions (Official Gazette table of contents)2026-11-07dailycurrent
Monthly data package (/veri/paket/)2026-10-15monthlycurrent
Monthly water-law bulletin (/bulten/)2026-11-02monthlycurrent
Case-law library retrieval2026-10-16monthlycurrent
Drought declarations and measures (/kuraklik/)2026-11-06monthlycurrent
Water utilities directory (/su-idareleri/)2026-11-07monthlycurrent
Transboundary treaty records (/en/transboundary/)2026-10-16monthlycurrent
WDI water figures (/en/transboundary/comparison/)2026-10-16monthly check (source yearly)current
Village-head packet PDF (81 provinces)2026-11-06monthlycurrent
Historic fountain records (/en/historic-fountains/, Wikidata)2026-10-16monthlycurrent
Türkiye Water Report PDF (yearly)2026-10-16yearlycurrent
Evidence file PDF (81 provinces + 25 basins)2026-10-16monthlycurrent
Water-cut notice watch (/kesintiler/)2026-11-07dailycurrent
Water tariff pages (/tarifeler/)2026-10-16monthlycurrent
DSİ regional sites reachability (/sulama-birlikleri/)2026-10-16monthlycurrent
Legislation radar2026-11-04weeklycurrent
Official Gazette operating-area watch2026-11-03weeklycurrent
River basin plan publication watch2026-11-04weeklycurrent
Court decision candidate pool2026-09-22monthlydelayed
Court decision database2026-09-13irregularstatic
Provincial groundwater compilations2026-07-27irregularstatic
Lake and river geometries (OSM)2026-08-04irregularstatic
Climate normals (NASA POWER)—irregularstatic

Changelog and licence

Data changes (additions, method changes, corrections) are logged in /veri/degisiklik-gunlugu.json (entries in Turkish, each linked to a repository commit). Su Haritası's own compilation is CC BY 4.0; third-party data keeps its source's terms (licence and source terms, Turkish). Archived version with a DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.23002677.

The data is informational and is not legal advice.

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