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

      Title

      Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

      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

      thumbnail

      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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