1. CIS WG D meeting
7 April 2011
DG ENV, Brussels
State of the Environment reporting - EEA 2012 State of Water assessment Agenda 6.
Bo N. Jacobsen
EEA

2. EEA 2012 State of Water assessment
100 pages synthesis/integrated report
more than five Water thematic assessments ( pages)
Baseline – overview of status and pressures affecting Europe’s water
Related to the main policy issues
WFD Article 18: … a review of the status of surface water and groundwater in the Community under-taken in coordination with the European Environment Agency;

3. Synthesis – integrated water assessment
Potential thematic assessments
Coastal and transitional waters
Hydromorphology pressures;
Freshwater biodiversity and related pressures;
Water resources and resource efficiency; water economics;
Water and vulnerability (water scarcity and droughts, floods;)
Other EEA reports
Coastal report
Urban report
Climate impact
2011 Chemicals report
2011 & 2012 Bathing water reports
Update of water indicators
Update of WISE maps
Assessment of Assessment on water

4. 170 RBMPs Analysis Other information DG Environment
Blueprint to Safeguard European Waters
Analysis
WFD imple-mentation
Water scarcity & drought
Climate change & water
EEA State of European Water
Synthesis/integrated
Water assessment
Other information
Baseline (Status of waters and pressures affecting them)
Further assessments – e.g. water resource efficiency, water accounts, ecosystem goods and services
Thematic (focused) assessments

5. Status and pressure assessments based on RBMPs – baseline assessment
Overall status (e.g. European overviews (pie-charts, maps)
Regional or type specific overviews (e.g. ecological status of deep lakes compared to shallow lakes)
Water bodies with poor-bad status – where are the hot-spots
Case-studies
Pressures
The most important pressures
Regional or type and issue specific pressures
Assessments of main pressures
Point sources
Diffuse sources
Water abstraction/stress
Physical modification – morphology, flow, continuity

6. From RBD information to European overview
European SoE Information
Overview tables – graphs
Maps
Indicators
Assessments
Integrated Assessments e.g. inclusion of sector information
Policy relevant evaluations
RBD/RB
information
RBD/RB
information
RBD/RB
information

7. European overview of ecological status (dummy)
European Ecological status
Ecological status per RBD

8. Preliminary results – Central Europe Ecological status of surface water bodies
The Netherlands
Austria
Germany

9. Preliminary results – 10 countries
Ecological status
surface water bodies

10. Preliminary results – 10 countries

11. Nitrate concentration per river basin district latest year (most RBDs 2008))
(mg N/l)
< 0.8
0.8-2
2-3.6
> 11.3
See WISE

12. Application of fertilisers and manure

13. Source apportionment (phosphorus load)
Pressures & impact
Source apportionment (phosphorus load)
Pressures
number and percentage of water bodies that are reported as being subject to the indicated significant pressures
• Point Source (numbers, loads)
• Diffuse Source (numbers, loads)
• Overlap with hydromorphology
• Other Pressures (invasive species, climate change, mining etc.)
Impacts
the number and percentage of water bodies that are reported as being subject to the indicated significant impacts
Nutrient enrichment (at risk of becoming eutrophic)
Organic enrichment
Acidification
Other impacts

14. Overall trend in river water quality
BOD & total ammonium
Nitrate & orthophosphate

15. Hydromorphological pressures

16. Scheldt AWB & HMWB
Source: &

17. Seine barriers

18. Timeplan
Analyse information from RBMPs, Water Scarcity and Drought and other issues (e.g. water ressource efficiency) – 1. half of 2011 – update later
Prepare baseline state and pressure indicators (graphs+assessments) (ready June)
Draft outlines for thematic assessment
Draft thematic and integrated assessments (Autumn 2011)
Present and discuss results and assessments with stakeholders (Eionet NRCs - Oct ?)
2012 finalise and publish the assessments

19. Thanks for your attention