Automated feeds

FeedSourceLicenceSeriesValuesPeriod coveredLast fetched
Met Office HadUK-Grid areal series
Monthly, seasonal and annual rainfall, temperature and sunshine for the UK, its nations and climate districts, from 1836.
Met OfficeOpen Government Licence v3.0136168,6911836–20261 October 2026
World Bank World Development Indicators
Annual country series for renewable freshwater, withdrawal, sector shares, water stress, drinking water and sanitation, under CC BY 4.0.
World BankCC BY 4.01,75162,3641961–20241 October 2026
Environment Agency Hydrology Data Explorer
Daily mean river flow and groundwater level for long-record English gauges and boreholes, aggregated to monthly and annual means. Some records begin in the 1830s.
EAOpen Government Licence v3.01,493445,6431836–202624 August 2026
Environment Agency Water Quality Archive
Annual mean nutrient, oxygen and pH values for English river monitoring points, computed from discrete laboratory samples in the Water Quality Archive.
EAOpen Government Licence v3.051,207748,1602000–202528 August 2026
USGS National Water Information System
Annual mean streamflow for long-record United States gauging stations, from the USGS statistics service.
USGSUS Government work — public domain3,499298,5141873–20252 September 2026
Hub'Eau Hydrométrie — French river flow
Monthly mean river discharge for long-record sites on the French national hydrometric network.
Hub'EauLicence Ouverte / Open Licence v2.0 (Etalab)896646,5431900–202625 August 2026
Hub'Eau Prélèvements — French water abstraction
Annual water abstraction by purpose for French departments and for France as a whole, from the national abstraction database.
Hub'Eau / BNPELicence Ouverte / Open Licence v2.0 (Etalab)4917,0102008–20231 October 2026
Hub'Eau Indicateurs des services — French water service performance
Population-weighted annual water service performance indicators for French departments and for France, from the SISPEA observatory.
Hub'Eau / SISPEALicence Ouverte / Open Licence v2.0 (Etalab)7838,2092008–201925 August 2026
Hub'Eau Qualité de l'eau potable — French drinking water
Annual drinking-water determinand statistics by French department: quantified share, limit exceedance rate and mean quantified concentration.
Hub'Eau / SISE-EauxLicence Ouverte / Open Licence v2.0 (Etalab)1,3874,8552022–20251 October 2026
Hub'Eau Piézométrie — French groundwater levels
Monthly mean groundwater level for long-record piezometers across the French national network, capped per department for coverage.
Hub'Eau / ADESLicence Ouverte / Open Licence v2.0 (Etalab)641271,2281905–20261 October 2026
SEPA — Scottish river flow, rainfall and groundwater
Monthly river flow, rainfall and groundwater level for the Scottish national monitoring networks, from the SEPA time series service.
SEPAOpen Government Licence v3.0712293,6281929–20265 October 2026
USGS reservoir storage
Monthly mean reservoir storage for long-record United States lakes and reservoirs, converted from acre-feet.
USGSUS Government work — public domain9254,1171914–20261 October 2026
Bureau of Reclamation reservoir operations
Monthly storage, water level, inflow and release for the federal reservoirs of the western United States, including Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
USBRUS Government work — public domain298236,9971905–20261 September 2026
USGS annual peak flow and catchment area
Instantaneous annual maximum discharge and the drainage area of long-record United States gauging stations.
USGSUS Government work — public domain4,493177,2991806–202631 August 2026
USGS groundwater levels
Monthly mean depth to groundwater for long-record United States observation wells, converted from feet below land surface.
USGSUS Government work — public domain250101,3371942–20261 October 2026
NRCS SNOTEL snow water equivalent
Monthly snow water equivalent from the automated SNOTEL network across the mountain west and Alaska.
NRCSUS Government work — public domain851376,9641963–202631 August 2026
United States Drought Monitor
Weekly official drought status for the contiguous United States and each state, as area in each Drought Monitor category.
US Drought MonitorUS Government work — public domain255355,9802000–20261 October 2026
PEGELONLINE — German federal waterway gauges
Daily mean water level and discharge for the gauging network on Germany’s federal waterways, accumulated from a publisher that retains only a rolling month.
PEGELONLINE (WSV)Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0 (DL-DE→Zero-2.0)83250,9822026–202626 August 2026
Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo — Dutch national water monitoring
Daily mean water level and discharge for the Rijkswaterstaat national monitoring network, aggregated from the ten-minute record.
RijkswaterstaatPubliek domein (Dutch government public domain dedication)443111,7252025–202525 August 2026
Environment Agency — English water company resources performance
Annual leakage, distribution input, per-capita consumption and metering indicators for the appointed water companies in England.
EA water resourcesOpen Government Licence v3.01262342023–20241 October 2026
EIA — United States thermoelectric cooling water
Plant-level water withdrawal and consumption for United States thermoelectric generation, from the mandatory EIA-923 return, with water type, source and named water body.
EIAUS Government work — public domain1,71614,9682014–20241 October 2026
IMGW — Polish hydrological network
Water level, discharge, water temperature and ice phenomena for the Polish national gauging network, accumulated from a publisher that serves the current state only.
IMGW-PIBPolish Open Data Act 2021 with EU High-Value Datasets Regulation 2023/1381,6403,2492026–202626 August 2026
Eurostat — European freshwater abstraction
Annual freshwater abstraction by sector and by source type for European countries, as reported to Eurostat by national statistical offices.
EurostatEuropean Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU)4058,1471970–20241 October 2026
SMHI — Swedish river discharge
Daily river discharge for the Swedish national hydrological network, as published by SMHI, reaching back to 1851.
SMHICC BY 4.06949,518,2381851–20261 October 2026
Syke — Finnish river discharge
Daily river discharge for the Finnish national hydrological network, as published by the Finnish Environment Institute, reaching back to 1911.
SykeCC BY 4.067210,342,7151847–20261 October 2026
OPW waterlevel.ie — Irish hydrometric network
Daily mean water level against Ordnance Datum for the Irish national hydrometric network, accumulated from a publisher that serves a five-week window.
OPW waterlevel.ieCC BY 4.045130,8572025–20261 October 2026
NOAA GHCN-Daily — daily climate at stations near Hydrionis water measurement
Daily precipitation, maximum and minimum air temperature and snow depth from forty-six long-record stations, each within thirty kilometres of a river gauge, borehole, monitoring station or reservoir Hydrionis already reports.
NOAA NCEIUS Government work — public domain26710,641,8621814–20261 October 2026
NOAA nClimDiv drought indices by US climate division
Palmer Drought Severity Index, Palmer Hydrological Drought Index and the Standardized Precipitation Index at one and twelve months, monthly since 1895 for each of the 344 climate divisions of the contiguous United States.
NOAA NCEIUS Government work — public domain1,3762,170,2961895–20261 October 2026
FAOSTAT — crop production, irrigated area and land cover
Annual national production, harvested area and yield for wheat, maize, rice, sugar cane, seed cotton and sorghum, with land equipped for irrigation and land actually irrigated from 1961, and forest, cropland, arable and pasture area as land cover.
FAOCC BY 4.0, as complemented by the FAO Statistical Database Terms of Use3,781140,0571961–20251 October 2026
Wildfire burned area near Hydrionis measurement points
Annual burned area within fifty kilometres of each United States river gauge, borehole, monitoring station and reservoir site Hydrionis reports, derived from federal wildland fire perimeters, 1984 to 2019.
NIFCUS Government work — public domain1,88167,7161984–201927 August 2026
Environment Agency freshwater macroinvertebrate indices
WHPT, LIFE and PSI community indices from standardised three-minute kick samples at long-record English river monitoring sites, from 1965.
EA ecologyOpen Government Licence v3.010,452471,0651965–20261 October 2026
Environment Agency freshwater fish density
Density of Atlantic salmon, brown and sea trout, and European eel at English river sites, from electrofishing depletion surveys since the 1970s.
EA ecologyOpen Government Licence v3.05,42449,5541975–20261 October 2026
Defra water and wetland bird indices
Annual abundance indices for water and wetland bird groups in the UK and England, from 1975, as published in the official wild bird population statistics.
DefraOpen Government Licence v3.0167681975–20241 October 2026
Environment Agency aquatic insect richness
Number of distinct mayfly, stonefly and caddisfly families in each standardised kick sample at long-record English river sites, from 1965.
EA ecologyOpen Government Licence v3.02,613117,8661965–20261 October 2026
EPA CASTNET air chemistry and dry deposition
Weekly rural air concentrations of sulphate, nitrate, ammonium, sulphur dioxide and nitric acid, and the modelled dry deposition fluxes computed from them, at United States CASTNET sites from 1987.
EPA CASTNETUS Government work — public domain1,1321,432,0531987–20261 October 2026

Last read is the oldest successful reading across a feed’s series, not the date the data was stored. If a publisher was briefly unavailable, the affected series are carried forward from the previous reading rather than deleted, and they keep their older date so the staleness is visible here.

How current each source is

Two different questions live inside “how old is this”, and answering them as one is how a platform ends up calling a perfectly current figure stale. The first is whether Hydrionis has re-read the publisher recently, which is Hydrionis’s responsibility. The second is whether the publisher has anything newer, which is not: a statutory annual return published a year in arrears is as current as that indicator gets, and describing it as stale would misrepresent the publisher rather than inform anyone.

So the threshold comes from what each source actually reports. A German gauge measuring every fifteen minutes is judged against days; a national water-services return is judged against years. Everything below is measured against 2026-10-05, so this page says the same thing every time it is regenerated from the same held data.

SourceStateReportsLast readNewest value
Defra
Defra offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2024; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. The publication carries twenty-two indices covering farmland, woodland, upland, seabird and all-species groups as well as water. Hydrionis holds the eight that describe dependence on fresh water and wetland, for the UK and for England. The species-level trend tables in the same workbook give a long-term and short-term percentage change per species rather than an annual series, and are not held. The underlying Wetland Bird Survey counts are not openly licensed and are not held.
Partial record heldannual values1 October 20262024-01
EA ecology
EA ecology offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-09; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. The Agency publishes 7.6 million taxon records across 280,630 samples. Hydrionis computes one number from them — the count of distinct EPT families per sample — at the same 2,611 long-record sites the community indices are held for, and stores no taxon list. Total abundance is published alongside and not held: a three-minute kick sample is designed to find what is present rather than to count it, and the published values reach 333,372 individuals in a single sample against a median of 79. Odonata richness was computed and refused, the median sample containing any dragonfly holding exactly one taxon.
Partial record helddaily values1 October 20262026-09
EA ecology
EA ecology offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-08; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. The Environment Agency publishes 369,381 species-survey rows across 126 species and several fishing methods. Hydrionis holds three flow-dependent species from non-selective electrofishing depletion surveys of at least 50 m² — 25,952 rows — at site-species pairs with at least five years of survey. Single-catch surveys, seine netting, fixed traps and species-selective surveys are excluded because none of them yields a number comparable with a depletion estimate. Length and weight measurement archives published alongside are not held.
Partial record helddaily values1 October 20262026-08
EA ecology
EA ecology offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-09; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. The Environment Agency publishes sites, per-sample indices and full taxon lists for 280,630 macroinvertebrate samples at 30,693 sites. Hydrionis holds four indices — WHPT ASPT, WHPT NTAXA, LIFE and PSI — at the 2,611 sites with at least 30 samples across at least 15 years, which is about 42% of all samples and the part of the archive long enough to show change. The 804 MB taxon file is deliberately not held: a taxon list is a species database rather than a time series. Diatom, macrophyte, phytoplankton and marine benthic archives published alongside are also not held.
Partial record helddaily values1 October 20262026-09
EIA
EIA offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2024; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. EIA publishes these returns from 2014, and Hydrionis holds all of them. Nothing earlier exists in this form: the cooling water schedule was added to the EIA-923 return in 2014.
Partial record heldannual values1 October 20262024-01
EPA CASTNET
EPA CASTNET offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-07; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. CASTNET publishes filter-pack chemistry, dry deposition, hourly ozone, meteorology and site metadata. Hydrionis holds five measured concentrations and their five modelled dry deposition fluxes at sites with at least 200 weekly records. Ozone and meteorology are not held: Hydrionis has no water pathway for the first and holds weather from elsewhere. Wet deposition is measured by a separate network with a different access route and is not held, so no total deposition figure is available here.
Partial record heldweekly values1 October 20262026-07
FAO
FAO offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2025; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. FAOSTAT publishes 278 crop and livestock products across 69 datasets. Hydrionis holds three elements for six crops chosen for their water relevance, plus two irrigated-area and eight land-cover series from the land-use domain. Livestock, trade, prices and emissions are deliberately not held. Of the 45 land-use items published, the eight taken are those that describe land cover with a bearing on the water balance; organic-certification, tillage, aquaculture and maritime-zone items are not held. Forest values exist in the file for every year from 1990 but are genuinely observed only at Global Forest Resources Assessment reference years, so the held series has six points across thirty-five years rather than thirty-six.
Partial record heldannual values1 October 20262025-01
IMGW-PIB
IMGW-PIB offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-10; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. IMGW serves the latest reading per station through this interface and nothing older. Its archive exists and is released on request rather than through the API, so Hydrionis accumulates from the date collection began instead of scraping. The Polish record here deepens with each run rather than reaching backwards.
Partial record helddaily values1 October 20262026-10
NIFC
NIFC offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2019; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. The Interagency Fire Perimeter History layer covers 1984 to 2019; perimeters from 2020 are published separately as WFIGS and are not held. The layer answers queries for later years with a residue of records — 151 in 2020 against 3,217 in 2019 — which would read as a collapse in American wildfire rather than as the end of a dataset, so collection stops where the coverage does.
Partial record heldannual values27 August 20262019-01
NOAA NCEI
NOAA NCEI offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-08; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. NOAA publishes eleven drought products at divisional, state, regional and national level. Hydrionis holds four of them at divisional level: PHDI, PDSI, SPI-1 and SPI-12. PMDI and the Palmer Z index are deliberately not held, and neither are the other five SPI windows.
Partial record heldmonthly values1 October 20262026-08
NOAA NCEI
NOAA NCEI offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-09; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. GHCN-Daily holds over 100,000 stations worldwide. Hydrionis holds forty-six, chosen for record length and for proximity to its own measurement points, and four of the elements they carry. This is a deliberate subset, not the limit of what NOAA publishes.
Partial record helddaily values1 October 20262026-09
OPW waterlevel.ie
OPW waterlevel.ie offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2026-10; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. The Office of Public Works serves about five weeks per station through this interface; its longer record sits on the separate Hydro-Data site, whose machine interface was not located and which Hydrionis does not scrape. The record here deepens with each collection rather than reaching backwards.
Partial record helddaily values1 October 20262026-10
Rijkswaterstaat
Rijkswaterstaat offers more than Hydrionis currently holds. The newest value here covers 2025-12; the gap is a deliberate limit on what has been collected, not a limit on the source. Rijkswaterstaat retains ten-minute measurement back to about 2013 and does not discard it, so the depth remains available to fetch later — what it costs is bandwidth, at roughly 16 MB per location-year. Hydrionis collects one complete calendar year and does not hold the 2013-present Dutch archive.
Partial record helddaily values25 August 20262025-12
EA water resources
Hydrionis holds everything EA water resources currently offers — it was read 4 days ago. The newest value still covers 2024, further back than the 550 days an annual value usually takes to appear. The publisher has not issued anything newer; the gap is its reporting schedule, not a Hydrionis failure.
Expected publication lagannual values1 October 20262024-04
Eurostat
Hydrionis holds everything Eurostat currently offers — it was read 4 days ago. The newest value still covers 2024, further back than the 550 days an annual value usually takes to appear. The publisher has not issued anything newer; the gap is its reporting schedule, not a Hydrionis failure.
Expected publication lagannual values1 October 20262024-01
Hub'Eau / BNPE
Hydrionis holds everything Hub'Eau / BNPE currently offers — it was read 4 days ago. The newest value still covers 2023, further back than the 550 days an annual value usually takes to appear. The publisher has not issued anything newer; the gap is its reporting schedule, not a Hydrionis failure.
Expected publication lagannual values1 October 20262023-01
Hub'Eau / SISPEA
Hydrionis holds everything Hub'Eau / SISPEA currently offers — it was read 4 days ago. The newest value still covers 2019, further back than the 550 days an annual value usually takes to appear. The publisher has not issued anything newer; the gap is its reporting schedule, not a Hydrionis failure.
Expected publication lagannual values1 October 20262019-01
USGS
Hydrionis holds everything USGS currently offers — it was read 4 days ago. The newest value still covers 2026-08, further back than the 7 days an instantaneous value usually takes to appear. The publisher has not issued anything newer; the gap is its reporting schedule, not a Hydrionis failure.
Expected publication laginstantaneous values1 October 20262026-08
World Bank
Hydrionis holds everything World Bank currently offers — it was read 4 days ago. The newest value still covers 2024, further back than the 550 days an annual value usually takes to appear. The publisher has not issued anything newer; the gap is its reporting schedule, not a Hydrionis failure.
Expected publication lagannual values1 October 20262024-01
EA
Read from EA 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09
EA
Read from EA 38 days ago, and the newest annual value covers 2025 — as current as this source gets.
Currentannual values28 August 20262025-01
Hub'Eau / SISE-Eaux
Read from Hub'Eau / SISE-Eaux 4 days ago, and the newest annual value covers 2025 — as current as this source gets.
Currentannual values1 October 20262025-01
Hub'Eau
Read from Hub'Eau 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09
Hub'Eau / ADES
Read from Hub'Eau / ADES 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09
Met Office
Read from Met Office 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09
NRCS
Read from NRCS 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09
PEGELONLINE (WSV)
Read from PEGELONLINE (WSV) 4 days ago, and the newest daily value covers 2026-10 — as current as this source gets.
Currentdaily values1 October 20262026-10
SEPA
Read from SEPA today, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-10 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values5 October 20262026-10
SMHI
Read from SMHI 4 days ago, and the newest daily value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentdaily values1 October 20262026-09
Syke
Read from Syke 4 days ago, and the newest daily value covers 2026-10 — as current as this source gets.
Currentdaily values1 October 20262026-10
USBR
Read from USBR 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09
US Drought Monitor
Read from US Drought Monitor 4 days ago, and the newest weekly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentweekly values1 October 20262026-09
USGS
Read from USGS 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09
USGS
Read from USGS 4 days ago, and the newest annual value covers 2025 — as current as this source gets.
Currentannual values1 October 20262025-01
USGS
Read from USGS 4 days ago, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-09 — as current as this source gets.
Currentmonthly values1 October 20262026-09

Partial record held means the publisher offers more than Hydrionis has collected, and the gap is a Hydrionis decision rather than a limit on the source — usually because the depth costs bandwidth rather than being at risk of disappearing. Expected publication lag means the opposite: Hydrionis holds everything the publisher currently offers and the publisher has not issued anything newer. It is not a fault, and it is deliberately not called stale: stale is reserved for the case where Hydrionis itself has not re-read a source in time, which is the only one of the two anyone here can fix. Source unavailable is a third thing again — the last run did not succeed, so nothing has been confirmed against the publisher since the run before it.

What each feed last collected

FeedOutcomeCreatedUnchangedSupersededRetainedRejected
Met Office HadUK-Grid areal seriessucceeded187168,5040—0
World Bank World Development Indicatorssucceeded062,3640—37
Environment Agency Hydrology Data Explorersucceeded186444,7092—0
Environment Agency Water Quality Archivesucceeded390,928357,2320—52
USGS National Water Information Systemsucceeded1,700292,5642—0
Hub'Eau Hydrométrie — French river flowsucceeded3,429639,0862,715—6
Hub'Eau Prélèvements — French water abstractionsucceeded07,0100—1
Hub'Eau Indicateurs des services — French water service performancesucceeded000—0
Hub'Eau Qualité de l'eau potable — French drinking watersucceeded04,8550—0
Hub'Eau Piézométrie — French groundwater levelssucceeded567270,055606—0
SEPA — Scottish river flow, rainfall and groundwatersucceeded945290,1352,548—4
USGS reservoir storagesucceeded2,52943,4688,120—0
Bureau of Reclamation reservoir operationssucceeded14,234217,773267—105
USGS annual peak flow and catchment areasucceeded34171,0416—0
USGS groundwater levelssucceeded31,65269,60382—0
NRCS SNOTEL snow water equivalentsucceeded1,041356,139150—0
United States Drought Monitorsucceeded255355,7250—0
PEGELONLINE — German federal waterway gaugessucceeded25,1470025,8000
Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo — Dutch national water monitoringsucceeded111,7250000
Environment Agency — English water company resources performancesucceeded0234000
EIA — United States thermoelectric cooling watersucceeded014,9680—1
IMGW — Polish hydrological networksucceeded1,624001,6090
Eurostat — European freshwater abstractionsucceeded08,1461—0
SMHI — Swedish river dischargesucceeded10,6749,489,18718,377—0
Syke — Finnish river dischargesucceeded15,57110,322,4724,672—0
OPW waterlevel.ie — Irish hydrometric networksucceeded15,23625315,5930
NOAA GHCN-Daily — daily climate at stations near Hydrionis water measurementsucceeded6,83410,634,779249—0
NOAA nClimDiv drought indices by US climate divisionsucceeded1,3762,092,22476,696—0
FAOSTAT — crop production, irrigated area and land coversucceeded0140,0570—0
Wildfire burned area near Hydrionis measurement pointssucceeded67,71600—0
Environment Agency freshwater macroinvertebrate indicessucceeded612469,871582—0
Environment Agency freshwater fish densitysucceeded12649,4280—0
Defra water and wetland bird indicessucceeded07680—0
Environment Agency aquatic insect richnesssucceeded153117,68924—0
EPA CASTNET air chemistry and dry depositionsucceeded5,2251,426,459369—2

Retained counts values this run did not fetch and did not delete. It applies only to sources that serve a rolling window rather than their whole record — PEGELONLINE offers roughly the last month of German measurement and nothing before it. For those, an absent period means the publisher no longer offers the value, not that the value was withdrawn, so Hydrionis keeps it and becomes the archive of a record its publisher does not hold. A dash means the source serves its full record, where an absent period genuinely is a deletion.

A re-run that creates nothing and leaves everything unchanged is the expected result: observation identifiers are deterministic, so reading a source twice supersedes rather than duplicates. A non-zero superseded count means the publisher revised a value Hydrionis already held; the previous value is kept alongside the new one rather than overwritten.

What was refused, and why

208 values were fetched and not stored. These are not errors on the publisher’s part in every case — a value can be genuinely absent, or genuinely implausible — but each one is a decision Hydrionis made, so each is reported.

World Bank World Development Indicators

  • Outside plausible range: 37

Examples:

  • Municipal share of withdrawal for Brunei, 2022: 164.673913 outside 0–100
  • Municipal share of withdrawal for Brunei, 2021: 164.673913 outside 0–100
  • Municipal share of withdrawal for Brunei, 2020: 164.673913 outside 0–100
  • Municipal share of withdrawal for Brunei, 2019: 164.673913 outside 0–100

Environment Agency Water Quality Archive

  • Outside plausible range: 52

Examples:

  • Nitrate as nitrogen for SPT FOR MISCELLANEOUS RIVER SAMPLES (DOES NOT INCLUDE CONTAMINATED SW) IN MERSEYSIDE, 2010: 826.2457333333333 outside 0–200
  • Orthophosphate as phosphorus for MISC RIVER SAMPLES LUNE/WYRE, 2022: 67.63900000000001 outside 0–50
  • Orthophosphate as phosphorus for SPT FOR MISCELLANEOUS RIVER SAMPLES (DOES NOT INCLUDE CONTAMINATED SW) IN CHESHIRE, 2019: 57.139346153846155 outside 0–50
  • Orthophosphate as phosphorus for SPT FOR MISCELLANEOUS RIVER SAMPLES (DOES NOT INCLUDE CONTAMINATED SW) IN DISTRICT 7, 2001: 55.804964285714284 outside 0–50

Hub'Eau Hydrométrie — French river flow

  • Outside plausible range: 6

Examples:

  • Mean monthly river flow for L'Yser en Belgique [Roesbrugge], 2026: -0.004 outside 0–250000
  • Mean monthly river flow for Le Lignon à Yssingeaux [QNR Versilhac-la-Valette], 2009: -0.011 outside 0–250000
  • Mean monthly river flow for Le Lignon à Yssingeaux [QNR Versilhac-la-Valette], 2017: -0.171 outside 0–250000
  • Mean monthly river flow for L'Allier à Monistrol-d'Allier [QNR], 2020: -0.001 outside 0–250000

SEPA — Scottish river flow, rainfall and groundwater

  • Outside plausible range: 4

Examples:

  • Monthly precipitation for Bogmuchals, 1993: 1610612764.6 outside 0–3000
  • Monthly precipitation for Newtown Sewage Works, 2008: 1610612797.3 outside 0–3000
  • Monthly precipitation for Coldstream Sewage Works, 2008: 1610612754.2 outside 0–3000
  • Monthly precipitation for Hatton (Perth), 2003: 3387.6 outside 0–3000

Hub'Eau Prélèvements — French water abstraction

  • Outside plausible range: 1

Examples:

  • Water abstracted, all purposes for France, 2013: 1018589.933046 outside 0–1000000

EIA — United States thermoelectric cooling water

  • Outside plausible range: 1

Examples:

  • Facility water consumption for Paradise, 2019: 3669.1617881133598 outside 0–2000

EPA CASTNET air chemistry and dry deposition

  • Outside plausible range: 2

Examples:

  • Particulate sulphate in air for Duke Forest, 2026: 172.5689 outside 0–100
  • Nitric acid in air for Duke Forest, 2026: 187.5589 outside 0–100

Bureau of Reclamation reservoir operations

  • Outside plausible range: 105

Examples:

  • Reservoir release for Willow Creek Reservoir, 1988: -0.015528593292387097 outside 0–250000
  • Reservoir release for Willow Creek Reservoir, 2012: -0.9059047446273768 outside 0–250000
  • Reservoir release for Willow Creek Reservoir, 2012: -3.74192969289984 outside 0–250000
  • Reservoir release for Willow Creek Reservoir, 2012: -1.7924107169403867 outside 0–250000

Notes from the last run

Met Office HadUK-Grid areal series

  • Publisher last updated: 01-Oct-2026 11:54

World Bank World Development Indicators

  • Dropped 318 sector-share values across 106 country-years where the three shares did not sum to 100% (e.g. country-alb|2016-01-01, country-alb|2015-01-01, country-atg|1998-01-01). This is an upstream inconsistency, not a Hydrionis one, and the whole triple is withheld rather than a guess published.
  • World Bank data is CC BY 4.0. Several water indicators are relayed from FAO AQUASTAT or the WHO/UNICEF JMP; the originating body is recorded on every observation.

Environment Agency Hydrology Data Explorer

  • waterFlow: 356 stations collected of 356 selected; 985,130 daily readings failed quality control; 7,643 months withheld as incomplete
  • groundwaterLevel: 408 stations collected of 409 selected, 1 unavailable; 59,416 daily readings failed quality control; 11 readings rejected as impossible for their own borehole

Environment Agency Water Quality Archive

  • Nitrate as N: 1,253,837 results read, 33,220 below detection limit; 3,923 points published, 9,776 dropped as too short a record, 40,829 point-years dropped as too few samples, 1,347 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Orthophosphate, reactive as P: 1,358,271 results read, 165,130 below detection limit; 3,877 points published, 11,102 dropped as too short a record, 44,569 point-years dropped as too few samples, 8,717 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Ammoniacal Nitrogen as N: 1,419,959 results read, 501,106 below detection limit; 3,003 points published, 12,868 dropped as too short a record, 45,942 point-years dropped as too few samples, 27,317 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Oxygen, Dissolved as O2: 1,242,781 results read, 59 below detection limit; 4,244 points published, 10,050 dropped as too short a record, 42,399 point-years dropped as too few samples, 0 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Oxygen, Dissolved, % Saturation: 1,328,762 results read, 69 below detection limit; 4,470 points published, 11,104 dropped as too short a record, 45,676 point-years dropped as too few samples, 0 dropped as mostly below detection
  • pH: 1,382,827 results read, 28 below detection limit; 4,637 points published, 11,751 dropped as too short a record, 49,736 point-years dropped as too few samples, 0 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Temperature of Water: 1,452,858 results read, 10 below detection limit; 4,633 points published, 11,327 dropped as too short a record, 46,119 point-years dropped as too few samples, 0 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Conductivity at 25 C: 775,159 results read, 31 below detection limit; 1,586 points published, 12,528 dropped as too short a record, 43,526 point-years dropped as too few samples, 0 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Alkalinity to pH 4.5 as CaCO3: 930,523 results read, 16,866 below detection limit; 2,347 points published, 11,660 dropped as too short a record, 47,044 point-years dropped as too few samples, 1,031 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Turbidity: 114,363 results read, 3,995 below detection limit; 373 points published, 2,595 dropped as too short a record, 3,242 point-years dropped as too few samples, 136 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Solids, Suspended at 105 C: 776,426 results read, 140,639 below detection limit; 2,075 points published, 8,970 dropped as too short a record, 19,415 point-years dropped as too few samples, 5,036 dropped as mostly below detection
  • BOD : 5 Day ATU: 828,897 results read, 214,720 below detection limit; 1,291 points published, 9,849 dropped as too short a record, 21,082 point-years dropped as too few samples, 8,562 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Carbon, Organic, Dissolved as C: 186,334 results read, 233 below detection limit; 359 points published, 5,923 dropped as too short a record, 6,959 point-years dropped as too few samples, 10 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Nitrogen, Total Oxidised as N: 1,394,836 results read, 45,326 below detection limit; 4,502 points published, 10,868 dropped as too short a record, 45,281 point-years dropped as too few samples, 1,696 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Nitrite as N: 1,308,307 results read, 195,277 below detection limit; 3,576 points published, 10,767 dropped as too short a record, 40,747 point-years dropped as too few samples, 10,735 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Phosphorus, Total as P: 234,853 results read, 14,706 below detection limit; 342 points published, 4,112 dropped as too short a record, 1,580 point-years dropped as too few samples, 501 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Lead, Dissolved: 182,317 results read, 104,542 below detection limit; 153 points published, 4,924 dropped as too short a record, 6,437 point-years dropped as too few samples, 10,264 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Cadmium, Dissolved: 141,613 results read, 73,494 below detection limit; 125 points published, 4,641 dropped as too short a record, 6,487 point-years dropped as too few samples, 6,760 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Mercury, Dissolved: 52,655 results read, 46,790 below detection limit; 2 points published, 800 dropped as too short a record, 1,274 point-years dropped as too few samples, 4,718 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Nickel, Dissolved: 183,035 results read, 74,933 below detection limit; 335 points published, 4,756 dropped as too short a record, 6,443 point-years dropped as too few samples, 7,045 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Zinc, Dissolved: 173,989 results read, 32,130 below detection limit; 332 points published, 4,961 dropped as too short a record, 6,653 point-years dropped as too few samples, 2,722 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Copper, Dissolved: 651,392 results read, 96,849 below detection limit; 2,234 points published, 6,176 dropped as too short a record, 7,642 point-years dropped as too few samples, 8,440 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Arsenic, Dissolved: 68,828 results read, 40,501 below detection limit; 100 points published, 1,346 dropped as too short a record, 1,985 point-years dropped as too few samples, 3,962 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Chromium, Dissolved: 166,937 results read, 122,385 below detection limit; 80 points published, 4,832 dropped as too short a record, 6,093 point-years dropped as too few samples, 12,727 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Iron, Dissolved: 183,568 results read, 40,113 below detection limit; 565 points published, 4,147 dropped as too short a record, 6,715 point-years dropped as too few samples, 3,901 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Manganese, Dissolved: 89,810 results read, 23,133 below detection limit; 128 points published, 3,781 dropped as too short a record, 5,354 point-years dropped as too few samples, 2,077 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Aluminium, Dissolved: 48,957 results read, 13,199 below detection limit; 22 points published, 3,112 dropped as too short a record, 3,439 point-years dropped as too few samples, 1,119 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Chloride: 584,681 results read, 810 below detection limit; 1,353 points published, 10,028 dropped as too short a record, 8,263 point-years dropped as too few samples, 27 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Sulphate, Dissolved as SO4: 37,374 results read, 7,808 below detection limit; 107 points published, 1,801 dropped as too short a record, 1,875 point-years dropped as too few samples, 671 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Sodium, Dissolved: 40,140 results read, 39 below detection limit; 136 points published, 1,885 dropped as too short a record, 2,118 point-years dropped as too few samples, 2 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Calcium, Dissolved: 99,232 results read, 672 below detection limit; 92 points published, 4,214 dropped as too short a record, 6,228 point-years dropped as too few samples, 63 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Magnesium, Dissolved: 74,163 results read, 29 below detection limit; 70 points published, 3,609 dropped as too short a record, 5,401 point-years dropped as too few samples, 0 dropped as mostly below detection
  • Potassium, Dissolved: 40,446 results read, 23 below detection limit; 135 points published, 1,915 dropped as too short a record, 2,119 point-years dropped as too few samples, 1 dropped as mostly below detection

USGS National Water Information System

  • 1720 of those gauges also publish a water-year mean, held as a separate metric: a snow-fed river's season runs October to September, and a calendar year cuts the snowpack off from the melt it produces. The two statistics differ by a few per cent in most years and are never mixed.
  • 13 sites publish the same statistic under more than one USGS time series identifier; the longest series was used for each. 26 annual values differed between identifiers by more than 0.1% and were not reconciled — the shorter series was discarded rather than merged.
  • 1728 United States gauges collected from 50 states, 3 statistic batches unavailable; 558 sites dropped where the published statistics were shorter than 50 years
  • Monthly means are available from the same service and are deliberately not collected: they would multiply the observation count roughly twelvefold for a marginal gain.

Hub'Eau Hydrométrie — French river flow

  • 894 sites retained (360+ months, at most 10 per department); 831 qualifying sites were dropped by the per-department cap, 2531 had shorter records and 5050 had no published monthly series.
  • Discharge is published in litres per second and stored in cubic metres per second, with the publisher’s unit recorded on every series.
  • 3490 retained sites have been measured by more than one station. The longest series is used for each; the alternative stations are not blended, because their values for the same month frequently differ.

SEPA — Scottish river flow, rainfall and groundwater

  • Q: 309 stations retained of 320; 10 had fewer than 120 months of record.
  • Precip: 358 stations retained of 382; 23 had fewer than 120 months of record.
  • GWLVL: 45 stations retained of 58; 13 had fewer than 120 months of record.
  • Scottish coverage uses SEPA under the Open Government Licence. The National River Flow Archive holds a longer and better Scottish record but its licence forbids republishing it, so it is recorded in the source registry as assessed and refused rather than used.

USGS reservoir storage

  • 92 reservoirs retained across 14 states, selected as the 12 longest records in each state meeting a 25-year threshold.
  • Storage is stored as a volume rather than as a percentage of capacity, because the capacity figures published alongside do not state whether they are gross, usable or conservation storage, and the three differ substantially.
  • 0 reservoir records and 4 state listings could not be fetched on this run and are carried forward.

Hub'Eau Prélèvements — French water abstraction

  • 1,236,887 abstraction declarations aggregated into 491 annual series across 101 departments and France as a whole.
  • 0 declarations were recorded by the water agency as not abstracted and were excluded rather than counted as withdrawals.
  • 13,658 declarations carried a purpose outside the five mapped categories. They are included in the total and not attributed to any purpose.
  • These are withdrawals, not consumption, and declared volumes, not licensed entitlement.

Hub'Eau Indicateurs des services — French water service performance

  • 0 SISPEA service-year returns aggregated into 0 series for 0 departments and France.
  • 0 returns carried none of the indicators Hydrionis holds and contributed nothing.
  • Figures are medians across reporting services, not population-weighted means: the SISPEA served-population field is empty on every record this API returns, so no defensible weight exists and none was invented.
  • 19 years could not be fetched on this run and are carried forward from the previous one.
  • The observatory publishes returns for 2008 to 2019 and has released nothing later through this API, so these series end there rather than being extended. Later years are requested on every run and will appear without a code change if they are published.

Hub'Eau Qualité de l'eau potable — French drinking water

  • 732,942 regulatory results for 5 determinands across 101 departments, aggregated into 1387 annual series.
  • 146,520 results (20.0%) were reported as below the laboratory detection limit. They are counted, published as a quantified-share series, and excluded from every mean rather than substituted with zero.
  • 4,563 results carried no parsable numeric value and are counted in the denominator only.
  • Only complete calendar years up to 2025 are aggregated; the current year is excluded rather than published as a partial annual figure.

Hub'Eau Piézométrie — French groundwater levels

  • 641 piezometers held from a national network of 23,348, selected as the 10 longest records in each department meeting a 30-year and 1000-reading threshold.
  • Capping per department trades some of the very best records for national coverage: a purely national ranking would concentrate in the Paris and Rhône basins and leave large regions unrepresented.
  • 17 selected boreholes were read too irregularly to support monthly means and were not stored.
  • 1 borehole records and 0 department listings could not be fetched on this run and are carried forward.

PEGELONLINE — German federal waterway gauges

  • W (water level): 737 gauges stored of 737 carrying the series.
  • Q (discharge): 93 gauges stored of 93 carrying the series.
  • PEGELONLINE serves roughly 31 days of measurement however much history is requested, so this run holds about one month per gauge. Each run adds its window to what is already stored, so the German record deepens over time rather than sliding forward. Hydrionis does not hold decades of German history.
  • 94 German waterways were recorded from the gauge network. They are held as registry candidates rather than published: the river profile is still the generic entity page, and a page per waterway is worth adding only once there is a profile worth visiting.
  • GKD Bayern holds the deep Bavarian record under CC BY 4.0 and is not collected: its bulk download requires an email address and acceptance of terms through a form, and Hydrionis does not complete access-consent flows programmatically. It is registered as assessed and blocked.

Environment Agency — English water company resources performance

  • Read 2 of 2 report editions. Matched 13 of 22 tables to a known measure by header text; the remainder are national summaries or measures Hydrionis does not hold. Collapsed 36 figures the report prints twice at different precision, keeping the finer printing.
  • Only two editions of this report exist, so this is seven indicators over two regulatory years — not the long series Ofwat holds and does not serve to automated requests. Two years does not meet the five common years a composite utility index requires, so this deepens the utility layer without triggering an index.
  • Figures use the English regulatory year running April to March and the company-reported water balance. They are not comparable with international non-revenue water percentages, which use a different denominator, nor with the French linear leakage index and network efficiency indicators, which normalise by network length rather than by property or person.

Rijkswaterstaat Waterinfo — Dutch national water monitoring

  • WATHTE (water level): 328 stations stored of 705; 377 returned nothing for the selected years. Rejected 6,312,728 readings from predicted rather than measured series — Rijkswaterstaat returns astronomical tide predictions alongside measurements at the same timestamps, and only the process type distinguishes them; rejected a further 1,838,461 measured against a reference plane other than NAP; 25 stations offered more than one measured series and the longest was taken rather than interleaving instruments. Rejected 830,132 readings the publisher did not mark quality code 00, including its .999999E+38 no-measurement marker. Collapsed 1,004,534 repeated timestamps from overlapping response blocks, and found 2496 repeats whose values disagreed — the first was kept and the disagreement is reported rather than resolved. Refused 1,223 days with fewer than 108 readings; 186 days held more than one validation state and used the stronger alone rather than averaging across them.
  • Q (discharge): 115 stations stored of 199; 84 returned nothing for the selected years. Rejected 69,355 readings from predicted rather than measured series — Rijkswaterstaat returns astronomical tide predictions alongside measurements at the same timestamps, and only the process type distinguishes them; 7 stations offered more than one measured series and the longest was taken rather than interleaving instruments. Rejected 142,942 readings the publisher did not mark quality code 00, including its .999999E+38 no-measurement marker. Collapsed 232,789 repeated timestamps from overlapping response blocks, and found 10734 repeats whose values disagreed — the first was kept and the disagreement is reported rather than resolved. Refused 892 days with fewer than 108 readings; 19 days held more than one validation state and used the stronger alone rather than averaging across them.
  • Holds the 2025 calendar year. Rijkswaterstaat retains its record back to about 2013 at ten-minute resolution and does not discard it, so the depth Hydrionis does not yet hold remains available: one location-year is roughly 16 MB, and the full archive across the network is on the order of 190 GB. Hydrionis does not hold the 2013-present Dutch archive. Further years are added in batches, and each addition deepens the record instead of overwriting it.

SMHI — Swedish river discharge

  • 694 stations stored of 720; 24 publish no corrected archive, almost all of them closed or very short-lived gauges; 2 returned a header with no values. 9,518,238 daily values across 87 main drainage basins.
  • Quality as SMHI marks it: 9,112,386 checked and approved, 21,148 roughly checked, 384,704 not yet checked. All three published levels are kept, because the roughly-checked values sit inside continuous records rather than at their ends — dropping them would leave silent holes. Each series states which of its periods are which.
  • Stored as one file per main drainage basin. Sweden’s daily archive is roughly 200 MB, which as a single file would be eight times the largest Hydrionis holds; split by basin, a page about one Swedish river reads only that river’s data.

OPW waterlevel.ie — Irish hydrometric network

  • 451 stations stored of 451 carrying an OD sensor. Rejected 16,416 unparseable readings; refused 885 partial days.
  • Every sensor’s parameter is confirmed against the publisher’s own station page before its values are read. The interface identifies a series only by a code, and the codes are not self-explanatory: sensor 0003 returns values around 12.9 that read perfectly as a water temperature and are the station’s battery voltage.
  • The OPW serves about five weeks per station here; its longer record is on the separate Hydro-Data site, which Hydrionis does not scrape. Each run adds to what is already held, so the Irish record deepens over time rather than sliding forward. Hydrionis does not hold Ireland’s historical archive.

Syke — Finnish river discharge

  • 3 basins exceeded 1,000,000 values and were split on Syke's own sub-basin boundaries: kokemaenjoki, kymijoki, vuoksi. A page about one gauge reads the whole file its series lives in, so a basin is divided before that becomes expensive rather than after.
  • 672 stations stored of 711 listed; 39 hold fewer than 365 usable days. Basins: 62.
  • Refused 622 values that Syke itself flags as possibly erroneous, and 0 that were empty or unparseable. Stored 35,591 interpolated values, which are a stated method rather than a doubt, and which each series describes.
  • Daily discharge is taken exactly as Syke publishes it. Every station record also names the main drainage basin it sits in, so Finnish gauges join the water graph as they are collected rather than through a separate linkage pass.

Eurostat — European freshwater abstraction

  • 405 series across 40 countries, from 23,447 cells; skipped 459 cells for aggregates and units Hydrionis does not hold as countries; skipped 14,710 for sector and source combinations without a metric; deferred 131 to a national register Hydrionis already holds in more detail.
  • Every value is reported actual abstraction. Eurostat publishes no licensed or authorised volumes, so nothing here can be confused with an entitlement. Abstraction is also not consumption, and no return flow is estimated.
  • The sector codes double-count by design — manufacturing cooling is part of manufacturing, and irrigation and aquaculture are parts of agriculture. Only the leaves Hydrionis holds a metric for are stored, so a page cannot sum a country’s sectors to more than its own total.

EIA — United States thermoelectric cooling water

  • The EIA-860 generator report could not be read on this run (the archive was not a ZIP), so facilities carry their water figures without operator, owner or position.
  • 838 generating stations with at least one complete reported year, from 160,585 monthly rows across 11 annual workbooks. 441 distinct named water sources.
  • Refused 488 plant-years in which the operator reported fewer than twelve months. A year assembled from part of itself is a different quantity with a year's name on it.
  • Refused 2 plant-years reporting negative consumption. EIA derives the figure as a difference, so a plant returning more than it withdrew reports below zero; that is a real outcome and not one this metric can hold, since consumption is the part of a withdrawal that did not come back.
  • Refused a further 104 plant-years reporting more water consumed than withdrawn, which cannot happen. Both figures are dropped for those years: one of the two is wrong, nothing says which, and correcting an operator's statutory return is not Hydrionis's to do.
  • Withdrawal, consumption and reclaimed water are stored as three separate metrics and are never combined. For cooling water the difference between withdrawal and consumption is a factor of a hundred at a once-through plant, so substituting one for the other is not a rounding matter.
  • 0 of 838 facilities carry an operator name, a position and an ownership record from the companion EIA-860 return. Ownership is a percentage a named company filed about a specific generator, not a corporate hierarchy Hydrionis assembled.
  • These are facility figures. A utility operating fifteen plants appears fifteen times and the fifteen are never summed here: a company-wide total is assembled on a different basis and belongs to the company, not to any of its sites.

IMGW — Polish hydrological network

  • 898 stations stored of 913 listed: 875 water levels, 645 discharges, 104 water temperatures. Refused 73 readings older than 14 days — a rolling snapshot repeats an old value indefinitely, and storing it on every run would fill the record with one ancient point per station.
  • 898 of 898 stations name the watercourse they gauge, so Polish gauges join the water graph as they are collected rather than through a separate linkage pass.
  • IMGW serves the latest reading per station and nothing older. Each run adds to what is already held, so the Polish record deepens over time rather than sliding forward. Hydrionis does not hold Poland’s hydrological archive, which IMGW releases on request.

NOAA GHCN-Daily — daily climate at stations near Hydrionis water measurement

  • 146 of 146 stations fetched. 17,977 values were withheld because they failed NOAA's own quality checks.

NOAA nClimDiv drought indices by US climate division

  • phdi: climdiv-phdidv-v1.0.0-20260904, 344 divisions.
  • pdsi: climdiv-pdsidv-v1.0.0-20260904, 344 divisions.
  • spi-1: climdiv-sp01dv-v1.0.0-20260904, 357 divisions.
  • spi-12: climdiv-sp12dv-v1.0.0-20260904, 357 divisions.

FAOSTAT — crop production, irrigated area and land cover

  • 140,057 values held across 3781 series for 6 crops, two irrigated-area measures and eight land-cover categories.
  • 62,746 values imputed by a receiving agency were not held: Hydrionis does not backfill, and holding an upstream backfill is the same act at one remove.
  • 1,126,037 rows were FAO's own regional and world aggregates, which are not adopted under Hydrionis region names. Sub-Saharan Africa is among them despite an area code below the usual aggregate threshold.
  • 44 FAOSTAT areas did not resolve to a Hydrionis country and were skipped: Belgium-Luxembourg (M49 058, no ISO3); China (M49 159, no ISO3); China, Taiwan Province of (M49 158, no ISO3); Cook Islands (COK, not a Hydrionis country); Czechoslovakia (M49 200, no ISO3); Ethiopia PDR (M49 230, no ISO3); French Guiana (GUF, not a Hydrionis country); Guadeloupe (GLP, not a Hydrionis country); Martinique (MTQ, not a Hydrionis country); Niue (NIU, not a Hydrionis country); Réunion (REU, not a Hydrionis country); Serbia and Montenegro (M49 891, no ISO3); Sudan (former) (M49 736, no ISO3); USSR (M49 810, no ISO3); Yugoslav SFR (M49 890, no ISO3); American Samoa (ASM, not a Hydrionis country); Anguilla (AIA, not a Hydrionis country); Aruba (ABW, not a Hydrionis country); Ascension, Saint Helena and Tristan da Cunha (SHN, not a Hydrionis country); Bermuda (BMU, not a Hydrionis country); Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (BES, not a Hydrionis country); British Virgin Islands (VGB, not a Hydrionis country); Cayman Islands (CYM, not a Hydrionis country); Channel Islands (M49 830, no ISO3); Curaçao (CUW, not a Hydrionis country); Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (FLK, not a Hydrionis country); Gibraltar (GIB, not a Hydrionis country); Isle of Man (IMN, not a Hydrionis country); Mayotte (MYT, not a Hydrionis country); Montserrat (MSR, not a Hydrionis country); Netherlands Antilles (former) (M49 530, no ISO3); Norfolk Island (NFK, not a Hydrionis country); Northern Mariana Islands (MNP, not a Hydrionis country); Pacific Islands Trust Territory (M49 582, no ISO3); Pitcairn (PCN, not a Hydrionis country); Saint Barthélemy (BLM, not a Hydrionis country); Saint Martin (French part) (MAF, not a Hydrionis country); Saint Pierre and Miquelon (SPM, not a Hydrionis country); Sint Maarten (Dutch part) (SXM, not a Hydrionis country); Tokelau (TKL, not a Hydrionis country); Turks and Caicos Islands (TCA, not a Hydrionis country); United States Virgin Islands (VIR, not a Hydrionis country); Wallis and Futuna Islands (WLF, not a Hydrionis country); Western Sahara (ESH, not a Hydrionis country).

Wildfire burned area near Hydrionis measurement points

  • 34 pages fetched; 67,544 perimeters returned, 66,934 usable for 1984–2019.
  • 610 records were outside the covered years or carried no usable area or centroid, including a sentinel year of 9999.
  • 1881 of 2638 United States measurement points had at least one fire within 50 km; the rest are not given a series rather than being given a row of zeros.

Environment Agency freshwater macroinvertebrate indices

  • 2,613 of 30,693 sites met the record-length rule of at least 30 samples across at least 15 years; 10,452 series over 2,613 sites were built from 118,324 of their samples.
  • 162,509 samples belong to sites with too short a record to show change and are not held. They are not lost data: the archive remains complete at the publisher, and the rule is about what Hydrionis can say rather than what exists.
  • 1,828 field replicate values shared a site, date and version with a value already held and were dropped rather than averaged into a figure the Agency did not publish.

Environment Agency freshwater fish density

  • 5,424 series over 1,808 sites, from 24,974 qualifying electrofishing depletion surveys and 3 species.
  • 26,188 values are densities from a published estimate and 48,734 are zeros reconstructed from surveys that qualified but recorded no row for that species. The zeros are the majority for every species and are the whole point: a row exists only where a species was caught, so holding only those would have published Atlantic salmon as a widespread species on the strength of the 3,863 surveys that found it while discarding the 21,074 that did not.
  • 120 of those surveys caught no fish of any species at all, which the publisher flags directly.
  • Excluded as not comparable with a depletion estimate: 182,952 rows of another survey strategy, mostly single-catch; 28,668 rows caught by seine net or fixed trap; 1,943 rows from species-selective surveys, where a species being absent may mean nobody looked for it.
  • 270 rows fished less than 50 m², where dividing by the area extrapolates a river from a few square metres. The extreme case is 58 trout in one square metre, which would have been published as 5,800 per 100 m².

Defra water and wetland bird indices

  • 16 series held: 8 for the UK and 8 for England, across 8 water and wetland bird groups.
  • The unsmoothed index is held. The smoothed trend line published beside it is a model with the year-to-year variation removed, and that variation is where a drought or a hard winter would show.
  • Wetland Bird Survey site counts, which the wintering indices are built from, are available only through a data request service and are not openly licensed. The indices derived from them are official statistics under the Open Government Licence and are what is held.

Environment Agency aquatic insect richness

  • 2,613 series from 118,324 samples at the same 2,613 long-record sites the community indices use.
  • 9,617 of those samples contained no mayfly, stonefly or caddisfly at all and are held as zero. They are results rather than gaps — a reach too degraded for any of the three sensitive orders — and dropping them would have raised every site's richness and hidden the worst rivers.
  • 2,162,416 EPT taxon records were read from 7.6 million and discarded after counting; no taxon list is stored. 487 EPT taxa appear in the publisher's dictionary and 484 of them resolve to a family.
  • 661 records identified no further than the order contributed no family and were skipped rather than counted as one.
  • 1,181,683 EPT records belong to samples at sites with too short a record to show change and are not held.
  • Total abundance and Odonata richness were both computed and refused: a three-minute kick is semi-quantitative, and its dragonfly catch is incidental — the median sample containing any Odonata holds one taxon.

EPA CASTNET air chemistry and dry deposition

  • 1132 series over 123 sites with at least 200 weekly samples: five measured concentrations and five modelled dry deposition fluxes, kept as separate metrics because a concentration and a flux are different quantities.
  • 728,383 measured concentrations and 702,375 modelled flux values held.
  • 8,290 weeks were below the detection limit and are held as censored observations, carrying the operator, the threshold and the kind of limit rather than a number. Nitrate is the most affected at 3.2% of weeks, then sulphur dioxide at 1.3%; the rest are under 1%.
  • 30,625 values were flagged invalid, not analysed, or with failed flow, and carry no observation at all — which is a different absence from a week below detection.
  • 59,299 of the flux weeks had their deposition velocity entirely substituted for missing inputs. They are held as the publisher publishes them, but the fluxes are modelled throughout and the substitution is concentrated in recent years.
  • 58 chemistry records belong to sites absent from the site file or lacking coordinates and are not held.

USGS annual peak flow and catchment area

  • 2145 gauges with an instantaneous annual peak series, 168915 peaks in total; 1 state listings unavailable
  • 8287 published peaks are marked by USGS as maximum daily averages rather than instantaneous maxima and are not held under this measure. A daily average is lower than the instantaneous peak of the same day, and holding the two together would understate every flood in the series that contained them.
  • 131 peaks are published as a bound rather than a value — the discharge was known to be above or below a figure but not measurable — and are held as censored observations carrying that bound.
  • 3309 peaks are marked by USGS as estimates rather than measurements. They are held, because an estimated peak is the publisher's best account of a real flood, and the qualification travels with the series.
  • 910 published peaks carry a year but not an exact day, and are not held. Placing them on the first of the month would be inventing the date of a flood.
  • 2166 catchment areas collected, of which 483 are contributing areas the publisher distinguishes from the topographic basin. The area is what allows a discharge to be expressed as a depth over the land that produced it, and so compared with rainfall.

NRCS SNOTEL snow water equivalent

  • 812 automated snow stations collected, 357330 station-months from 1963; 36 stations held fewer than 60 usable months and were not stored; 2 batches unavailable
  • 118770 of those months are zero, which is the summer at almost every station: the snowpack has melted and the instrument reports that it has. Those months are stored as measurements rather than as absences, because they are what shows when the melt finished.
  • The same service publishes snow water equivalent from manual snow courses, some reaching back to 1910. Those are a different measurement — a person taking cores near the first of the month rather than an instrument weighing a pillow daily — and are deliberately not mixed into this record.

United States Drought Monitor

  • 51 areas collected — the United States as a whole and each state — with 71196 weekly assessments from 2000-01-04 to 2026-09-29
  • These are the Drought Monitor’s own categories, which are cumulative: the share shown for a category includes every area in a more severe one. Hydrionis stores them as published rather than converting them into exact bands.
  • Drought status here is an assessment made weekly by named author agencies, and is deliberately held apart from the drought indices Hydrionis calculates. Hydrionis does not derive a drought status of its own, and nothing in its own indices should be read as one.
  • 2 weekly figures did not follow the publisher's cumulative ordering, where a more severe category covered more area than a less severe one. They are stored as published and counted here, because the ordering is the publisher's to define.

USGS groundwater levels

  • 250 observation wells held across 36 states, selected as the 12 longest records in each state meeting a 25-year threshold.
  • Depth to water is stored rather than groundwater elevation, because it is the quantity the United States actually publishes: 4,462 wells report a daily mean depth against 510 on the 1988 vertical datum and 203 on the 1929 one. The two are not interchangeable and are not combined.
  • Capping per state trades some of the longest records for national coverage: of the wells meeting the span threshold, roughly a fifth are in Georgia and a seventh in New Jersey, and a national ranking would have returned little else.
  • 10 selected wells were read too irregularly to support monthly means and were not stored.
  • 211 wells are held without aquifer or construction detail. Their water tables are complete; only the descriptive record is missing, because the publisher's request allowance was reached before it could be collected.
  • The publisher's hourly request allowance was reached partway through this run, so 0 wells were not asked for. Everything already held is retained and the remaining wells are carried forward to the next run rather than being treated as withdrawn.

Bureau of Reclamation reservoir operations

  • 292 operating series held for 96 federal reservoirs, selected as the 25 longest-record reservoirs in each Reclamation region meeting a 20-year threshold.
  • Storage is published as a volume and not as a percentage of capacity. The Bureau publishes no reservoir capacity of any kind — of the 782 quantities in its catalogue, the only ones named capacity are the generating capacity of the powerplants, in kilowatts — so there is no denominator to divide by, and Hydrionis does not invent one.
  • Reservoir levels are held against each operator’s own datum, which differ: most are the 1988 national vertical datum, but Lake Mead is published on a local datum established at Hoover Dam in 1912. Levels are not comparable between reservoirs.
  • 25 catalogued series are model output rather than measurement — basin-study projections running as far as 2099 under the same names as the observed record — and are not held. Hydrionis stores what was observed at these reservoirs, not what a study projects for them.
  • 251 catalogued series report a reservoir quantity as a daily volume rather than as a rate. They are left alone rather than divided by a day length the publisher did not state.
  • 6 series could not be fetched on this run and are carried forward.

How the record is stored

Every value Hydrionis publishes is stored as plain files alongside the site rather than in a database. That is what makes the record reproducible: the same held data always produces the same figures, without depending on a service that could change its answer between one reading and the next.

For three publishers, the copy Hydrionis holds is the only surviving one — the publisher no longer serves those values at all. That is the strongest argument for keeping the record in a form that does not depend on anyone else continuing to host it.

Assessed, and not collected

Freshness answers whether what Hydrionis holds is current. It cannot answer why a source is absent, because a source with no automated feed has nothing to report — and those are the ones a professional reader most wants accounted for.

Sources Hydrionis has assessed and does not collect, with the reason
SourceStatusCheckedWhy
Irish hydrometric archive and station register OPW Hydro-DataRefused on rights2026-08-26Access is conditional on accepting a click-through agreement. The site states it plainly: "You will not be able to proceed in the website beyond this page or to retrieve, view, read or download data without this agreement and acknowledgement." Hydrionis does…
California Data Exchange Center — reservoir storage CDECRefused on rights2026-08-25Assessed for collection on 25 August 2026 and refused. CDEC is the best reservoir dataset found: a clean JSON API, seventy years of monthly storage for named reservoirs, and — uniquely among the sources examined — published capacities, which would have allow…
National River Flow Archive NRFARefused on rights2026-08-24Assessed for collection on 24 August 2026 and rejected. The NRFA is the best river-flow archive in the UK and its API is technically excellent, but the click-through licence governing API access is incompatible with how Hydrionis works. Clause 3.1 forbids ma…
Global Runoff Database GRDCRefused on rights2026-08-23A good example of a highly valuable but restricted source. Hydrionis records its existence and coverage, and instead draws river flow from national open portals such as the UK National River Flow Archive and USGS NWIS.
Global Dam Watch harmonised dam and reservoir database GDWRefused on rights2026-08-23A harmonised merge of the major dam inventories. Hydrionis currently uses GRanD and HydroSHEDS directly; the harmonised product is the better long-term source once its per-layer licensing is confirmed.
Global Burden of Disease — unsafe water, sanitation and handwashing risk factors IHMERefused on rights2026-08-23The authoritative source for disease burden attributable to unsafe water, but its user agreement restricts use to non-commercial purposes and requires registration. Hydrionis uses JMP service ladders and SDG 6 reporting instead, which describe access rather …
DesalData / GWI market intelligence GWIRefused on rights2026-08-23Recorded because it is the recognised commercial reference for desalination markets. Hydrionis explicitly does not purchase, collect or replicate this product. Equivalent factual coverage is built independently from public procurement notices, environmental …
Water abstraction licence register EA abstraction licensingRefused on rights2026-08-23Assessed on 26 August 2026 and not ingestible as it stands. The licence register itself has no machine-readable resource published through data.gov.uk: of the abstraction datasets listed there, the register entries carry no resource and no declared licence, …
ISO water quality and water footprint standards ISORefused on rights2026-08-23Standard numbers and titles are factual references and freely citable; the normative text is not. Hydrionis cites the identifier and describes the scope in its own words.
Data centre efficiency surveys Uptime InstituteRefused on rights2026-08-23Recorded as a known industry benchmark source. Hydrionis builds its data centre water coverage from company disclosures, planning and environmental permit documents, and peer-reviewed studies instead.
Norwegian hydrological API (HydAPI) NVE HydAPIReady, awaiting authorisation2026-08-26NORWAY — READY FOR AUTHORISED CONNECTION. Every request needs a free API key in an X-API-Key header; without one the API returns 401. The key is generated from a form against an email address rather than through an account, is free, and NVE states the reason…
Gewässerkundlicher Dienst Bayern — Bavarian hydrological service GKD Bayern (LfU)Ready, awaiting authorisation2026-08-25Bulk download runs through a download basket that requires an email address and explicit acceptance of terms and privacy conditions before a file is released. Hydrionis will not submit that form programmatically: accepting terms on a publisher’s behalf, or s…
Natural Resources Wales water data NRWAssessed, not collected2026-08-23Assessed on 25 August 2026 and no machine-readable hydrometry endpoint was located. The public river levels service is an ArcGIS web application, and the ArcGIS organisation serving its basemaps is a third-party tile host rather than an NRW data service. The…
Northern Ireland water quality and environment data NIEAAssessed, not collected2026-08-23Assessed on 25 August 2026. The Northern Ireland open data catalogue answers automated requests with 403 on the host that serves its API and 404 on the public one, so its holdings could not be enumerated automatically. As with Ofwat, the barrier is technical…

A source refused on rights is a decision, not a backlog item: its terms do not permit the use Hydrionis would make of it, and no amount of engineering changes that. One waiting for authorisation is the opposite — the rights are clear and an access control stands in the way, and connecting it needs a credential only the operator of this platform can obtain.

Where automation stops

Hydrionis registers 210 sources, of which 35 are collected automatically. The rest are either cited without their values being held, or their values were entered by hand from a published document. That gap is real and is not hidden: 165 sources are marked as in use without an automated feed behind them, which means the values drawn from them do not refresh on their own.

118,009 values have been superseded by a later publication and are retained alongside their replacements. See methodology for how revisions are handled, and the source registry for the rights attached to each publisher.