Dashboard (Tableau)

Groundwater quantitative and chemical status

Dashboard (Tableau)

Prod-ID: DAS-43-en

Published 03 Jul 2018

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Topics: Water and marine environment

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.

More information

Caution is advised when comparing Member States and when comparing the first and second RBMPs, as the results are affected by the methods Member States have used to collect data and often cannot be compared directly.

Further information is provided in a Draft guide to dashboards on groundwater quantitative and chemical status ; in the chapter 4 and 5 EEA report European waters – assessment of status and pressures 2018, and section 3.4 Quantitative status of groundwater and exemptions and section 3.5 Chemical status of groundwater and exemptions of the WFD 2016 reporting guidance.

Further information on groundwater status is available in following dashboards:

Groundwater bodies: quantitative status

Quantitative status - tables overview table and by geological formation
Quantitative status - charts by geological formation ; country comparison ; by country and geological formation
Quantitative status - maps by country ; by RBD ; by country and RBD
Quantitative status assessment confidence overview table
At risk of failing to achieve good quantitative status - overview table
Quantitative status reasons for failure overview table and overview chart
Quantitative status in the 2nd and 1st RBMP - charts by geological formation ; country comparison ; by country and geological formation
Good quantitative status expected in 2015 overview table and expected achievement year of good quantitative status overview table
Quantitative exemption type: overview table (summary); overview table (WFD countries); overview graph
Quantitative exemptions and pressures; overview of exemptions (summary); overview graph; overview table (WFD countries); overview table (WFD countries)

Groundwater bodies: chemical status

Chemical status - tables overview table and by geological formation
Chemical status - charts by geological formation ; country comparison ; by country and geological formation
Chemical status - maps by country ; by RBD ; by country and RBD
Chemical status assessment confidence overview table
At risk of failing to achieve good chemical status - overview table
Chemical status reasons for failure overview table and overview char
Groundwater pollutants - tables table by country ; overview table ; table trend reversal ;table upward trend ; other pollutants
Groundwater pollutants - charts causing failure ; upward trend ; trend reversal ; causing risk
Chemical status in the 2nd and 1st RBMPs - charts by geological formation ; country comparison ; by country and geological formation
Good chemical status expected in 2015 overview table and expected achievement year of good chemical status overview table
Chemical exemption type: overview table (summary); overview table (WFD countries); overview graph
Chemical exemptions and pressures; overview of exemptions (summary); overview graph; overview table (WFD countries); overview table (WFD countries)

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