European Environment Agency
Water Information System for Europe
The reporting backbone for the EU Water Framework Directive: ecological and chemical status classification for every designated surface water body and groundwater body in the EU, river basin district boundaries, pressures and measures.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from European Environment Agency, used under European Commission reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency
- Website
- https://water.europa.eu/
- Geographic coverage
- European Union and EEA — water body level
- Temporal coverage
- 2004 onwards
- Update frequency
- multi-year
- Formats
- csv, geojson, shapefile, wfs
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- quality, ecosystem, groundwater, river flow
Notes
WFD status classes use the "one out, all out" rule: a water body takes the worst of its individual element classifications. That makes headline "percentage of water bodies in good status" figures far stricter than most national systems, and not directly comparable with non-EU classifications.