EEA geospatial data catalogue
Waterbase - Water Quality ICM, 2024
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.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-06-01T13:50:03+00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-02T13:50:03+00:00
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_waterbase-water-quality-icm-3_p_1900-2024_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-240-en
- Citation identifier
- waterbase-water-quality-icm-3
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Publisher European Environment Agency
Processor
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1900-01-01 2024-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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- Romania
- Estonia
- Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
- Italy
- Ireland
- Türkiye
- Portugal
- Latvia
- Croatia
- Albania
- Austria
- Finland
- Iceland
- Czechia
- Spain
- France
- Greece
- Serbia
- Netherlands
- Cyprus
- Poland
- Switzerland
- Lithuania
- United Kingdom
- North Macedonia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Liechtenstein
- Montenegro
- Slovakia
- Malta
- Denmark
- Slovenia
- Germany
- Sweden
- Bulgaria
- Norway
- Belgium
- Luxembourg
- Hungary
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Language
- English
- 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 Information
- Distribution format
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ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
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SQLite
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download
Definition of the dataset
- OnLine resource
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EEA_Discodata_WISE_SOE_BasicUserGuide_v1.0.pdf
- OnLine resource
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Dataset definition for WISE6_SpatialObject_DerivedData
- OnLine resource
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Dataset definition for WISE6_AggregatedData
- OnLine resource
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Dataset definition for WISE6_AggregatedDataByWaterBody
- OnLine resource
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Dataset definition for WISE6_DisaggregatedData
- OnLine resource
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DISCODATA
Discodata provides an endpoint to access and filter data directly in the database. The main use for the portal is to provide access to datasets for specifically developed applications. But it also provides a user interface that gives any user an option to access, filter and download the data.
Resource lineage
- 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.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 77976729-1aeb-4b61-a673-83db6c6a2ab2
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Non geographic dataset
- Name
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Tabular dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/77976729-1aeb-4b61-a673-83db6c6a2ab2
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-06-30T08:22:54.879465Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:58:31.319096Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3:2018
- Edition
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1.0
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