1 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Content and structure of Waterbase Rivers Update procedure Products based on Waterbase Rivers Future Developments

2 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Content and structure of Waterbase Rivers Update procedure Products based on Waterbase Rivers Future Developments

3 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Content of Waterbase Rivers Basic network Aggregated data

4 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Basic network Content of Waterbase Rivers

5 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Structure of Waterbase Rivers Tables Waterbase ID Relationships

6 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Tables Stations Pressures Standard Determinands Determinands Chemicals

7 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Stations: physical characteristics National Station ID and Name Last Year of Revision Station Category, Type and Size Longitude, Latitude and Altitude Discharge Catchment Name and Area

8 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Pressures: human pressures as % of land use Population density Urban Wetland Nature Forest Total Agricultural Other Agricultural Arable Pasture Other Point Source Loads Fertiliser Usage Soil Type Geology

9 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Standard Determinands: standardised values Determinand Unit Category

10 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Determinands: as supplied in update Determinand Unit Previous Determinand Previous Unit Correction Factor

11 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Chemicals: chemical data by station National Station ID and Name Year Period and Period Length Determinand and Unit Detection Limit Number of Samples Average Maximum Minimum Standard Deviation Median 10th Percentile 90th Percentile

12 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Waterbase ID WBnnnnnn eg. WB001234

13 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Relationships

14 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Stations ChemicalsPressures WB_ID

15 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Content and structure of Waterbase Rivers Update procedure Products based on Waterbase Rivers Future Developments

16 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Update procedure Data request Raw data validated, processed, standardised = comparable data Uploaded to Waterbase Rivers

17 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Data request September Excel templates Physical characteristics Pressure Chemical

18 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Raw data validated Data returned in various formats Excel spreadsheets (template or other) Word documents Text files Databases s

19 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Raw data validated Data expressed in various formats National languages Determinands Units of measurement Non-numeric characters in numeric fields <. *

20 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Validation process identifies: New stations Stations no longer used Checked against Waterbase and update Formatting validated

21 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Upload to Waterbase Rivers New data appended Amendments to existing data - archive and update

22 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Content and structure of Waterbase Rivers Update procedure Products based on Waterbase Rivers Future Developments

23 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Indicator reports State of the Environment reports Issues reports Sectoral reports (e.g. TERM, EERM…) Information for EEA products

24 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers EEA and national experts ETC and partners DG Environment EUROSTAT Member countries EEA collaborating organisations Information for target users

25 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers European Parliament National environmental authorities Industry, commerce and agriculture Academic and research organisations Media General public Information for target users

26 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Content and structure of Waterbase Rivers Update procedure Products based on Waterbase Rivers Future Developments

27 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Future developments Reference Waterbase Streamline update process Additional datasets Collaborations

28 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Reference Waterbase Create composite Reference Waterbase Rivers Lakes Groundwater Transitional and coastal waters

29 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Reference Waterbase Continue to develop the Waterbase Rivers GUI Increase flexibility of selection criteria

30 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Waterbase Rivers GUI

31 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Waterbase Rivers GUI

32 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Waterbase Rivers GUI

33 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Waterbase Rivers GUI

34 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Waterbase Rivers GUI

35 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Reference Waterbase Make Reference Waterbase available on the web Enhance visualisation on web using mapping and graphical applications Develop metadata registry and version control

36 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Streamline update process Automation Encourage use of Excel templates Standardisation of language Format

37 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Additional datasets Impact network Disaggregated data Biological and hydromorphological data Quantity / flow data

38 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Collaborations Joint Research Centre Developing a digital database of derived drainage networks, river basins and catchments of Europe at a scale 1:250,000 Include detailed data at Eurowaternet measurement stations from Waterbase

39 EUROPEAN TOPIC CENTRE ON WATER WATERBASE Rivers Summary To create a composite Reference Waterbase To make the Reference Waterbase available on the web Interim measure To make Waterbase Rivers and Lakes available on CD-ROM