Proportion of classified water bodies in different RBDs affected by hydromorphological pressures, for rivers and lakes (left panel) and for coastal and transitional waters (right panel)

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The percentage is based on total number of classified water bodies. See the indicator specification for more details.

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See the EEA ETC/ICM technical report for more details and the methodology used for assessing pressures (EEA ETC/ICM, 2012a).
A water body is considered to be affected by hydromorphological pressures if it is reported with any of the aggregated pressure types 'Water abstraction', 'Water flow regulations and morphological alterations of surface water', 'River management', 'Transitional and coastal water management', 'Other morphological alterations' and/or any of the corresponding disaggregated pressure types.
The coastal waters of the Baltic have a low proportion of water bodies affected by hydromorphology pressures, except for Estonia, which reported more than half of its coastal water bodies as having hydromorphological pressures. This is an example of inaccurate reporting: Estonia has misinterpreted the pressure category 'Transitional and coastal water management'; the Estonian RBMPs do not indicate hydromorphology as a major coastal water pressure.

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WISE WFD Database The WISE-WFD database contains data from River Basin Management Plans reported by EU Members States according to article 13 of the Water Framework Directive. The full database is quite complex and not yet made available for public download. However, a number of aggregation queries have been made, these aggregation queries extract data from the database and present it as data tables that can be downloaded in Excel format. Most of the reported data are considered final, however, in some cases they are considered provisional by Member States. The aggregation tables are updated when the underlying WFD Database is updated with new or corrected data. It is therefore important to associate the use of any information in the tables with the date in which data was retrieved. The tables are organised for an access at various levels of overviews versus details - aggregated at country, river basin district (RBD) or in some cases even RBD-subunit level.

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Water resources in Europe in the context of vulnerability This report describes how the natural cycle of water availability is continuously coming under threat from a variety of different pressures like droughts and water scarcity, pollution, and flood risks which all increase the vulnerability of the freshwater ecosystems and societies. Land use, water abstraction and climate change are human-induced changes that alter the natural flow regimes that exist in water bodies.
European waters - assessment of status and pressures This report's results present good and robust European overviews of the data reported by the first RBMPs, and of the ecological status and pressures affecting Europe's waters. Europe's waters are affected by several pressures, including water pollution, water scarcity and floods. Major modifications to water bodies also affect morphology and water flow. To maintain and improve the essential functions of our water ecosystems, we need to manage them well.

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