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Distribution of chemical status of groundwater, rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters.

Figure Created 15 Nov 2012 Published 15 Nov 2012 Last modified 15 Dec 2022

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Topics: Water and marine environment

Number of Member States contributing to the dataset: Groundwater (26); Rivers (25); Lakes (22); Transitional (15) and Coastal (20). Percentages shown for rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal are by water body count. Groundwater percentages, however, are expressed by area. The total number of water bodies is shown in parenthesis. Data from Sweden are excluded from surface water data illustrated in the figure. This is because Sweden contributed a disproportionately large amount of data and, classified all its surface waters as poor status since levels of mercury found within biota in both fresh and coastal waters exceed quality standards.

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Number of Member States contributing to the data set: groundwater (25); rivers (26); lakes (24); transitional (16) and coastal (22). Percentages shown for rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal are by water body count. Groundwater percentages, however, are expressed by area. The number of water bodies is provided in parentheses.
Data from Sweden are excluded from surface water data illustrated in the figure. This is because Sweden contributed a disproportionately large amount of data, and classified all its surface waters as having poor status, since levels of mercury found within biota in both fresh and coastal waters exceed quality standards

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