Nile-SEC has implemented, with the financial support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), its first groundwater study project with the objective of enhancing knowledge and capacity for sustainable use and management of trans-boundary aquifers and aquifers of regional significance in the Nile Basin.  
In such a framework, NBI has designed and developed the online Groundwater knowledge and Database Management System (GWDB) for selected transboundary aquifers in the Nile basin, aimed at storing raw groundwater data and information/maps for interesting groundwater sources and knowledge generated from multiple national groundwater projects.