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WISE WFD Database (Water Framework Directive Database)

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Created 19 Jun 2018 Published 02 Jul 2018 Last modified 20 Apr 2019
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The WISE WFD database contains data from the 1st and 2nd River Basin Management Plans reported by EU Members States according to article 13 of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The database includes information about surface water bodies (number and size, water body category, ecological status or potential, chemical status, significant pressures and impacts) and about groundwater bodies (number and size, quantitative status, chemical status, significant pressures and impacts). The information is presented by country, river basin district (RBD) and river basin district sub-unit (where applicable).

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WISE-WFD database

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Derived data set:  Environmental Accounting Reference Layers - SDI
Derived data set:  WISE WFD protected area spatial data sets
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EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV).
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Data reported by EU Member States under the Water Framework Directive, Article 13.

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Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)
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European Environment Agency (EEA)

Additional information

To facilitate future comparisons, the RBDs and subunits are those used in the 2nd River Basin Management Plans (RBMP). 

The structure of the data and further information are described in the WFD Reporting Guidance.

For more information see also supporting files for 2016 reporting on River Basin Management Plans.

 

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Derived dataset

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Archived
Environmental Accounting Reference Layers - SDI This is a collection of the geospatial Environmental Accounting Reference Layers of the Integrated Data Platform published on the website and registered in EEA`s Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The link under "GIS data" points to the SDI thematic node on Environmental Accounting Reference Layers.
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Archived
WISE WFD protected area spatial data sets The Water Framework Directive (WFD) protected area data sets include information about European drinking water protected areas, designated waters such as fish protected areas and shellfish protected areas, nitrates vulnerable zones, urban waste water sensitive areas and bathing water protected areas. The protected areas are part of the Water Framework Directive register of protected areas and were reported in second River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) or under other related reporting obligations. The data sets are part of the Water Information System for Europe (WISE), and compile information reported by the EU Member States, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland to the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA).

Interactive charts

Dashboard (Tableau) WISE Water Framework Directive (data viewer) The WISE WFD database contains data from the 1st and 2nd River Basin Management Plans reported by EU Members States according to article 13 of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The database includes information about surface water bodies (number and size, water body category, ecological status or potential, chemical status, significant pressures and impacts) and about groundwater bodies (number and size, quantitative status, chemical status, significant pressures and impacts). The information is presented by country, river basin district (RBD) and river basin district sub-unit (where applicable).
Dashboard (Tableau) Chemical status of surface water bodies For surface waters, good chemical status means that no concentrations of priority substances exceed the relevant EQS established in the Environmental Quality Standards Directive 2008/105/EC (as amended by the Priority Substances Directive 2013/39/EU). EQS aim to protect the most sensitive species from direct toxicity, including predators and humans via secondary poisoning. A smaller group of priority hazardous substances were identified in the Priority Substances Directive as uPBT (ubiquitous (present, appearing or found everywhere), persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic). The uPBTs are mercury, brominated diphenyl ethers (pBDE), tributyltin and certain polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Click on <..> to see different dashboards, more dashboards are available below the main dashboard.
Dashboard (Tableau) Delineation of water bodies The Water Framework Directive ‘water environment’ includes rivers, lakes, transitional waters, groundwater and coastal waters out to 1 nautical mile (12 nautical miles for chemical status, i.e. for territorial waters). These waters are divided into units called water bodies. Member States have in the river basin districts delineated water bodies and reported different data to characterize water bodies such as length or area, category (groundwater, rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal waters), national type and information if a surface water body is designated as heavily modified or artificial. More dashboards are available below the main dashboard.
Dashboard (Tableau) Pressures and impacts The WFD requires the identification of significant pressures from point sources of pollution, diffuse sources of pollution, modifications of flow regimes through abstractions or regulation and morphological alterations, as well as any other pressures. ‘Significant’ means that the pressure contributes to an impact that may result in failing to meet the WFD objectives of not having at least good status. In some cases, the pressure from several drivers, e.g. water abstraction from agriculture and households, may in combination be significant. Further dashboards are available below.
Dashboard (Tableau) Quality element status Ecological status is determined for rivers, lakes, and transitional and coastal waters based on biological quality elements (phytoplankton, macrophytes, phytobenthos, benthic invertebrate fauna and fish) and supporting physico-chemical (nutrients, oxygen condition, temperature, transparency, salinity and river basin specific pollutants (RBSPs) and hydromorphological quality elements. The WFD specifies which elements are to be assessed for each water category and requires that biological and supporting quality elements achieve at least good status. The dashboards provide overview of the different results related to ecological status of quality elements. Further dashboards are available below.
Dashboard (Tableau) Ecological status of surface water bodies Ecological status is an assessment of the quality of the structure and functioning of surface water ecosystems. It shows the influence of pressures (e.g. pollution and habitat degradation) on the identified quality elements. Ecological status is determined for each of the surface water bodies of rivers, lakes, transitional waters and coastal waters, based on biological quality elements and supported by physico-chemical and hydromorphological quality elements. The overall ecological status classification for a water body is determined, according to the ‘one out, all out’ principle, by the element with the worst status out of all the biological and supporting quality elements. More dashboards are available below the main dashboard.
Dashboard (Tableau) Groundwater quantitative and chemical status The WFD requires Member States to designate separate groundwater bodies and ensure that each one achieves 'good chemical and quantitative status'. To meet the aim of good chemical status, hazardous substances should be prevented from entering groundwater, and the entry of all other pollutants (e.g. nitrates) should be limited. Good quantitative status can be achieved by ensuring that the available groundwater resource is not reduced by the long-term annual average rate of abstraction. In addition, impacts on surface water linked with groundwater or groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems should be avoided, as should saline intrusions. Further dashboards are available below.
Data Visualization Distribution of ecological status or potential of classified rivers, lakes, coastal and transitional waters, by count of water bodies

Produced figures

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Water exploitation index plus for Europe (summer months – 2015) Sub-basin with the water exploitation index plus (WEI+) values for 2015 summer months
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Seasonal water exploitation index plus (WEI+), sub river basin district scale Seasonal water exploitation index plus (WEI+), sub river basin district scale in winter (top left), spring (top right), summer (bottom left) and autumn (bottom right) 2015.
Figure Percentage of number water bodies not in good chemical status without uPBT per river basin district (RBD) in second RBMPs Surface water bodies failing to achieve good chemical status, by RBDs without uPBTs.
Figure Percentage of area of groundwater bodies not in good chemical status per river basin district (RBD) in second RBMPs Groundwater bodies failing to achieve good status, by RBD.
Figure Seasonal water exploitation index plus (WEI+), Ecrins functional river basin districts, 2015 Seasonal water exploitation index plus (WEI+), Ecrins functional river basin districts in winter (left) and summer (right) 2015.
Figure Water bodies failing to achieve good overall surface water status, by river basin district (RBD) Surface water status, by river basin district (RBD)
Figure Percentage of number water bodies not in good chemical status with uPBT per river basin district (RBD) in second RBMPs Surface water bodies failing to achieve good chemical status, by RBDs with uPBTs.
Figure Percentage of area of groundwater bodies not in good quantitative status per river basin district Groundwater bodies failing to achieve good status, per River Basin District. RBMP: River Basin Management Plan.
Figure Percentage of water bodies not in good ecological status/potential in Europe’s river basin districts in second River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) The map present the proportion of surface water bodies (rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters) in less than good ecological status per River Basin District.
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Seasonal water exploitation index (WEI+), sub river basin district scale The maps and the charts shows the seasonal water stress in European sub-basins expressed through water exploitation index results in winter, spring, summer and autumn of 2015

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