Percentage of water bodies not in good ecological status/potential in Europe’s river basin districts in second River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs)

Figure Created 26 Jun 2018 Published 02 Jul 2018 Last modified 13 Dec 2018

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Topics: Water and marine environment ,

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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Last upload:

03 Jul 2018

Temporal coverage:

2016-2018

Tags:

water , wfd , ecological status

Geographic coverage:

Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Hungary , Italy , Latvia , Luxembourg , Malta , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , United Kingdom

Methodology:

See the EEA ETC/ICM technical report for more details and the methodology used for assessing ecological status or potential: https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/water-assessments

The results are calculated as a percentage of the total number of classified water bodies. The results are based on the information Member States have reported for the second River Basin Management Plans (2nd RBMPs).

Units:

Percentage of surface water bodies in less than good ecological status or potential (based on number of water bodies).

Rights:

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: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Figure type:

Map

Additional information

The map is based on information reported under the second River Basin Management Plans of the Water Framework Directive. These plans were finalised in 2015, and reported in 2016 and 2017. The results cover the period up to 2015.
RBD: River Basin Districts.
The percentages are based only on known ecological status or potential (i.e. they do not take into account unknown status). Caution is needed when comparing results between Member States as the results can be significantly affected by the methodology applied by individual Member States.
Data sets on surface water body quality for Switzerland reported in the framework of EEA priority data flows are not compatible with the EU Water Framework Directive assessments and are not included in the figure.