1. Outlook into the future development of WISE (from an EEA perspective)
WISE Workshop Paris 12th November 2008
Stefan Jensen, Peter Kristensen, Rob Collins

2. WISE future developments
Distributed system architecture (...)
Improved web based communication and information sharing
Enhanced data integration and thematic assessments

3. Distributed system architecture (...)

4. As part of the work Support future (more dynamic) reporting
Enhance QA and QC processes through Reportnet
Consolidate WISEdata model
Explore possibilites for more SEIS compliance
e.g. Bathing water / EU floods directive
Deliver new (INSPIRE compliant) services

5. Improved web based communication and information sharing

6. WISE usage and usability
Strongly increasing user numbers on website
Still – there is need to review website, create more dynamic content

7. „Personas“ as user profiles

8. Some other ideas WaterWiki – learn from Wikipedia
Country/RBD profiles – factsheets
Scientific literature/knowledge search
Shared water assessments

9. WaterWiki – learn from Wikipedia
Wikipedia are strong on textual description of geographical objects: rivers, lakes, reservoirs, including multitude of language versions
E.g. List of rivers by country (alphabetical, by regions/administrative units, by sea areas)
Wikipedia has some activities on water portals (French version)

10. Wikipedia: Category: Rivers of Europe

11. Wikipedia: WikiProject Rivers & WikiProject Lakes
List of rivers by name
List of rivers by continent List of rivers of Europe
Lists of rivers by country
Lists of rivers by state or province, etc.
List of tributaries of Hudson Bay
List of rivers by length
List of rivers by average discharge
List of largest drainage basins
List of European rivers with alternative names
Standard template for describing rivers see Elbe & German: Elbe version
Or Indalsälven or Swedish: Indalälven

12. Country & RBD profiles Country factsheets
UNDP WaterWiki
UN CSD 12/13 (Freshwater & Sanitation) & 16 (Drought)
FAO AQUASTAT
Hydropower

13. Water portals Sweden http://www.vattenportalen.se/fov_meny_problem.htm
EMWIS
PlanBleu
SEE transboundary
WWF Europe – Freshwater
Drought
Turkish lakes

14. Climate and Freshwater

15. LAKECORES - Palaeolimnology Database – Scientific data on maps

16. Much valuable water information is available at country level
Water websites describing in water resources, water pollution and state of water systems.
Water chapter in SoE reports
State of water and many detailed reports
During the last years several countries have established Internet based services similar to the WISE-viewer such as database access and Web-GIS functionality that provide the interested public with access to monitoring results.

17. Enhanced data integration and thematic assessments

18. Linking RBD, country and European assessments

19. Example: Nitrate concentration in rivers
Map and diagram illustrating nitrate concentration and trend in Walloon rivers
European (EEA and DG ENV) and country assessments generally have:
• A map illustrating the concentration level
• Trend graphs illustrating the development in nitrate concentration
The following example is a first rough visualisation of shared water assessments
Source: L'Etat de l'environnement Wallon 2006 : CH 10: L'eau et l'environnement aquatique

21. River nitrate concentrations by country, latest year (most countries 2006)
Rivers with low pollution levels are found in the Nordic countries, Baltic States and in the Alps and western Balkans
The countries with a high proportion of rivers with high nitrate concen-trations are western-central European countries (UK, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France) with intensive agricultural areas
Nitrate
(mg N/l)
< 0.8
0.8-2
2-3.6
> 11.3
See WISE

22. Nitrate by river basin districts, latest year (most RBDs 2006)
Rivers with high nitrate concentrations are found in western-central European rivers with intensive agricultural areas
Nitrate
(mg N/l)
< 0.8
0.8-2
2-3.6
> 11.3
See WISE

23. Nitrogen application (mineral fertilisers and manure)
North-western Europe and some of the large southern European river basins (e.g. Po River and the Ebro river) have the highest input of nitrogen fertilisers.
Remark that many parts of Eastern Europe only receive half the area input compared to western Europe
Source: Mulligan et al. 2007: An Atlas of Pan-European Data
for Investigating the Fate of Agrochemicals in Terrestrial Ecosystems

24. More integration of (new) topics
e.g. Land use pressures on the water environment
Crop types and lifestock numbers (CORINE, Eurostat)
Nutrient balances (JRC, others)
Emissions from agriculture (WISE SoE, JRC)
Industry (E-PRTR)
Urban waste water plants (UWWT)
Athmossperic polutants (EPER)
Water quality incl. ecological (WISE SoE)

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