EEA geospatial data catalogue
Waterbase - Water Quality ICM, 2023
Waterbase is the generic name given to the EEA's databases on the status and quality of Europe's rivers, lakes, groundwater bodies and transitional, coastal and marine waters, on the quantity of Europe's water resources, and on the emissions to surface waters from point and diffuse sources of pollution.
The dataset contains time series of nutrients, organic matter, hazardous substances, pesticides and other chemicals in rivers, lakes, groundwater, transitional, coastal and marine waters. A list of spatial object identifiers with selected attributes, reported through WFD and WISE Spatial data reporting, is added to dataset as spatial reference. The data has been compiled and processed by EEA. Please refer to the metadata for additional information.
*** The dataset is split into two parts: Part 1: DisaggregatedData; Part 2: AggregatedData, AggregatedDataByWaterBody, SpatialObject_DerivedData. ***
Data is reported by EEA member countries as individual samples from monitoring sites in the DisaggregatedData table or as annual aggregates of samples from monitoring sites in the AggregatedData table. Therefore data found in one table is not found in the other, and visa versa. Data in the the AggregatedDataByWaterBody is mostly historical.
For an alternative option how to access the Waterbase data without downloading the full dataset, please see the 'Discodata user guide' in the Documents section.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2024-06-01T13:50:03+00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-07-12T13:50:03+00:00
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_waterbase-water-quality-icm-3_p_1900-2023_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-240-en
- Citation identifier
- waterbase-water-quality-icm-3
- Status
- Superseded
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
http://www.eea.europa.eu#organization Publisher European Environment Agency
http://www.eea.europa.eu Processor
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
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EEA Management Plan
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2024 1.1.6
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- Keywords
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- Keywords
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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- Denmark
- Romania
- Türkiye
- Ireland
- Slovakia
- Belgium
- Norway
- Cyprus
- Bulgaria
- Hungary
- Switzerland
- Italy
- United Kingdom
- North Macedonia
- Albania
- Estonia
- France
- Malta
- Austria
- Greece
- Slovenia
- Liechtenstein
- Serbia
- Luxembourg
- Montenegro
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Germany
- Spain
- Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
- Iceland
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Latvia
- Sweden
- Finland
- Portugal
- Czechia
- Use limitation
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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).
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Language of dataset
- English
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 1900-01-01
- End date
- 2023-12-31
- Additional Information
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Methodology:
This Waterbase contains data on nutrients, organic matter, hazardous substances and other chemical substances in surface water and groundwater.
The data was delivered between 2000 and 2023 by EEA member countries and cooperating countries, in the scope of the current WISE SoE - Water Quality ICM (WISE-6) reporting obligation and the retired WISE SoE - Water Quality (WISE-4), River quality (EWN-1), Lake quality (EWN-2) and Groundwater quality (EWN-3) reporting obligations. It includes WFD watch list data from 2016 onwards, reported by EU Member States.
The national data deliveries are compiled into a European-wide Waterbase. The data is used for EEA core set indicators that assess the state, trends in water related pressures and monitor the progress of European policy objectives.
Data sources
The original data is available in the EIONET Central Data Repository.
- Distribution format
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- ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql) ( )
- OnLine resource
OnLine resource
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
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The original data is available in the EIONET Central Data Repository.
This Waterbase contains data on nutrients, organic matter, hazardous substances and other chemical substances in surface water and groundwater.
The data was delivered between 2000 and 2023 by EEA member countries and cooperating countries, in the scope of the current WISE SoE - Water Quality ICM (WISE-6) reporting obligation and the retired WISE SoE - Water Quality (WISE-4), River quality (EWN-1), Lake quality (EWN-2) and Groundwater quality (EWN-3) reporting obligations. It includes WFD watch list data from 2016 onwards, reported by EU Member States. No data are available for the United Kingdom after Brexit.
The national data deliveries are compiled into a European-wide Waterbase. The data is used for EEA core set indicators that assess the state, trends in water related pressures and monitor the progress of European policy objectives.
Metadata
- File identifier
- beb570c1-4dd3-4edd-973c-9fe912cfaca5 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Tabular dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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Tabular dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-02T06:57:04.996596Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
