Bathing water quality in Europe - Web Services

The bathing water quality data services include all coastal and inland bathing waters reported and assessed in the European Union Member States, Albania, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The data is reported annually in the scope of the Bathing Water Directive (Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006, BWD) reporting obligations.


The map services in https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/BathingWater show the location of the bathing waters and the assessment of bathing water quality for the last reported bathing season, as well as for the ten previous bathing seasons .


Each bathing water is assessed for three statuses:

1) monitoring calendar status,

2) management status,

3) bathing water quality status.

The monitoring calendar status evaluates the implementation of the monitoring calendar in the last reported season (as defined in Annex IV of the Bathing Water Directive).

The management status evaluates the management in the last assessment period, whether the bathing water was continuously monitored or not.

The bathing quality status evaluates the quality of bathing waters according to the two microbiological parameters: Escherichia coli and Intestinal enterococci (as defined in Annexes I and II of the Bathing Water Directive).

The bathing water quality is classified in one of four classes: “Excellent”, “Good”, “Sufficient” or “Poor”.

The status “Not classified” is applied if there are not enough available samples to evaluate the water quality.


The data service in https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/ contains the results of the bathing water status since 1990 :

[WISE_BWD].[latest].[assessment_BathingWaterStatus]


It also contains the reported data in the following tables:

[WISE_BWD].[latest].[timeseries_Characterisation]

[WISE_BWD].[latest].[timeseries_SeasonalPeriod]

[WISE_BWD].[latest].[timeseries_MonitoringResult]

[WISE_BWD].[latest].[spatial_SpatialProtected]

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Date (Publication)
2020-06-08
Date (Revision)
2021-09-20
Citation identifier
eea_v_4326_250_k_wise-bwd-bathing-water-quality_service
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Point of contact

No information provided.

Point of contact

No information provided.
Keywords

GEMET

  • water (geographic)

  • inland water

  • water

  • bathing water

  • coastal water

  • lake

  • water body

  • surface water

  • bathing water directive

  • river

  • transitional waters

  • Water Framework Directive

  • water resources management

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • United Kingdom

  • EU27 (from 2020)

  • Albania

  • Switzerland

Spatial scope

  • European

INSPIRE priority data set

  • Directive 2006/7/EC

  • Directive 2000/60/EC

  • Bathing water sites (Bathing Water Directive)

  • Protected areas (Water Framework Directive)

  • Bathing waters - recreational waters (Water Framework Directive)
EEA topics

  • Water

  • Environmental health impacts
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No limitations in the use of this web service.
Service Type
OGC:WMS
Service Version

1.3.0
Fees

NONE
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Begin date
2008-01-01
Coupled Resource
Operation Name Scoped name Identifier

GetCapabilities

40e6624e-cd58-4183-8a5d-61795100b133
Coupling Type
Tight
Contains Operations
Operation Name Distributed Computing Platforms Connect Point
Operates On

Sous-regions marines

  • /Métropole

  • /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord

  • /Métropole/Mers Celtiques

  • /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne

  • /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Activités et Usages/Loisirs

Thématiques - SIMM

  • /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions

Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS

  • /Données dérivées/Indicateurs

Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM

  • Directive Cadre sur l'Eau (DCE)

Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM

  • Directive Eaux de baignade
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:4326
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3857
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:102100
Reference system identifier
CRS:84
Distribution format
Name Version
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

 		https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/BathingWater/BathingWater_Dyna_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

ESRI:REST

 		https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/BathingWater/BathingWater_Dyna_WM/MapServer

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/interactive/bathing/state-of-bathing-waters

State of bathing waters dashboard

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/#WISE_BWD_latest

DISCODATA Rest endpoint
Hierarchy level
Service
Other

Service

Conformance result

Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification
Statement

For more information about the lineage of the datasets provided via this web service, please consult the associated metadata of the dataset.

Metadata

File identifier
6b7b7f62-659f-4df7-8b54-88c5113a9400 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Service
Hierarchy level name

Service
Date stamp
2022-01-28T17:19:58.878Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19119/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

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Keywords

Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM
Directive Cadre sur l'Eau (DCE) Directive Eaux de baignade
EEA topics
Environmental health impacts Water
GEMET
Water Framework Directive bathing water bathing water directive coastal water inland water lake river surface water transitional waters water water (geographic) water body water resources management
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
INSPIRE priority data set
Bathing water sites (Bathing Water Directive) Bathing waters - recreational waters (Water Framework Directive) Directive 2000/60/EC Directive 2006/7/EC Protected areas (Water Framework Directive)
Spatial scope
European
Thématiques - SIMM
/Activités et Usages/Loisirs /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions
Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS
/Données dérivées/Indicateurs

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