EEA geospatial data catalogue
Waterbase - Water Quality ICM, 2021
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 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. *** 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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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-05-11T13:50:03+00:00
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-05-11T13:50:03+00:00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_waterbase-water-quality-icm_p_1900-2021_v01_r03
- Citation identifier
- DAT-240-en
- Citation identifier
- waterbase-water-quality-icm-2
- Status
- Superseded
- 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 2021
- Maintenance and update frequency
- EEA Management Plan
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2022 1.1.2
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- EEA topics
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Water
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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- Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Estonia
- Netherlands
- Liechtenstein
- Austria
- North Macedonia
- Switzerland
- Croatia
- Denmark
- Lithuania
- Spain
- Albania
- United Kingdom
- Cyprus
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Romania
- Greece
- Hungary
- Sweden
- Slovenia
- Portugal
- Germany
- Poland
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Slovakia
- Bulgaria
- Belgium
- Malta
- France
- Montenegro
- Norway
- Czechia
- Finland
- Serbia
- Türkiye
- Latvia
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 2021 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.
information.png Data sources
The original data is available in the EIONET Central Data Repository.
Content Information
- Feature catalogue citation
Distribution Information
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 2021 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.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- ee04fe4b-f300-46b0-968e-66245da60e80
- 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/ee04fe4b-f300-46b0-968e-66245da60e80
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-09-07T07:59:09.149Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:21:40.063765Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3:2018
- Edition
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1.0
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