Groundwater quantitative and chemical status
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DAS-43-en
Published 03 Jul 2018
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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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Temporal coverage
2000-2015
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/european-waters/water-quality-and-water-assessment/water-assessments/groundwater-quantitative-and-chemical-status or scan the QR code.
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