SEPA water environment data
Environmental regulator for Scotland. Publishes river level and flow, water classification under the Water Framework Directive, bathing waters, abstraction and discharge authorisations, and water scarcity reporting.
Rights
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesContains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Terms last checked
- 25 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- Geographic coverage
- Scotland — 320 flow, 382 rainfall and 58 groundwater stations
- Temporal coverage
- 1958 onwards
- Update frequency
- sub-daily
- Formats
- csv, json, api, geojson
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- river flow, precipitation, groundwater, quality, withdrawal, drought, ecosystem
Notes
Exposed through a Kisters KiWIS time series service, the same interface used by several other European hydrological agencies, which is why the way Hydrionis reads it is written to be reusable rather than SEPA-specific. SEPA states the data is open under the Open Government Licence with no registration, requiring only attribution to SEPA. It is the licensed alternative to the National River Flow Archive, whose terms forbid the republication Hydrionis performs.
What Hydrionis holds from this publisher
The publisher’s own coverage is above. This is what Hydrionis has actually taken from it, at the subjects it measures — gauges, boreholes, reservoirs or places.
What is measured
- Groundwater level · m
- Mean monthly river flow · m³/s
- Monthly precipitation · mm
How current it is
- Current
- Read from SEPA today, and the newest monthly value covers 2026-10 — as current as this source gets.
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