EEA geospatial data catalogue
Waterbase - Water Quantity, 2009
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, and on the quantity of Europe's water resources
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-12-15T08:14:43+00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-12-15T08:14:43+00:00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_waterbase-water-quantity_p_1998-2008_v05_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-58-en
- Status
- Superseded
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role CENIA
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Publisher Processor European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ICM)
Processor
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1998-01-01 2008-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- EEA Management Plan
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2009 AMP2009-4_1_2
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Bulgaria
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Cyprus
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Czechia
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Denmark
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Estonia
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France
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Ireland
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North Macedonia
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Sweden
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Lithuania
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Switzerland
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Austria
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Slovenia
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- EEA topics
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Water
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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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Waterbase contains timely, reliable and policy-relevant data collected from EEA member countries through the Eionet-Water (formerly known as Eurowaternet) process. Eionet-Water selects validated monitoring data from national databases and adds information on the physical characteristics of the water bodies being monitored and on the pressures potentially affecting water quality. The added value of Waterbase is that data collected through the Eionet-Water process are from statistically stratified monitoring stations and groundwater bodies and are comparable at the European level. Waterbase data are primarily used in the production of the EEA's indicator-based factsheets.
Water quantity database is published again, first time after 3 years. In 2007 the old dataset structure was abandoned and development of new structure and new system for collecting data have started. First data collection test was run in 2008. In 2009 a new reporting system was established and used by country reporters in another data collection test which has provided data for this dataset.
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Central to the Water Quantity database concept is the gentity. A gentity is short for geographical entity and can be a) a point, typically a station e.g. measuring precipitation or streamflow or b) an area e.g. a River Basin District or a Country. Other possible types of geographical entities such as lines or networks do not apply to the water quantity database.
All data stored in the database are directly or indirectly related with one gentity. Most of the reported water quantity data are stored in form of time series, which in return are related to gentities. The published dataset is a flat file of all reported time series related to Water Quantity. It is produced from the Water Quantity database by joining data from individual database tables.
The European Topic Centre on Water. Version 5, date of delivery (date sent to the Data Service): 07/06/2010
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- a093cb0c-5e73-47b0-bc6d-78237c8d5cf7
- 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/a093cb0c-5e73-47b0-bc6d-78237c8d5cf7
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-28T09:39:22.736Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:28:43.384041Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3:2018
- Edition
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1.0
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