NL Water Extraction Ban Monitor (Onttrekkingsverbod)

Get the current Dutch surface-water extraction ban status per zone for 7 water authorities (waterschappen), sourced directly from their official ArcGIS open-data services — plus the official legal water-scarcity priority ranking ("verdringingsreeks") classification tool.

When should an AI agent use this?

• "Is there a water extraction ban currently active in this area of Waterschap De Dommel?"
• "Which zones in Waterschap Aa en Maas currently have an extraction ban?"
• "Give me all active extraction bans across the covered Dutch water authorities."
• "If I use water for agricultural irrigation, what priority category applies during a water shortage in the Netherlands?"
• "Compare extraction ban coverage between Vechtstromen and Hunze en Aa's."

What this Actor does

• Fetches zone-level extraction ban status directly from 7 water authorities' official ArcGIS services (no scraping): De Dommel, Vallei en Veluwe, Vechtstromen, Aa en Maas, Hunze en Aa's, Brabantse Delta, and Stichtse Rijnlanden (HDSR).
• Normalizes each authority's own data model (they differ — some publish an explicit status field, others model a ban as the mere existence of a zone in a dedicated layer) into one consistent output schema.
• Optionally classifies a water use type (drinking water, agriculture, industry, etc.) against the official Dutch "verdringingsreeks" — the legal priority order used to allocate scarce water — as a pure classification with no network call.
• Each source is fetched independently: if one water authority's service is temporarily unavailable, the others still deliver results (with a warning logged for the failed one).

Coverage note: the Netherlands has 21 water authorities in total. This version covers 7 — chosen because each publishes a genuinely live, machine-readable open-data source (verified individually; there is no shared national data standard between them). Several others were investigated but deliberately excluded: two (Amstel Gooi en Vecht, Delfland) appear to have no extraction-ban regime at all (they are boezem areas fed by external water supply); a few more (Hollands Noorderkwartier, Scheldestromen, Rijn en IJssel) publish GIS layers that don't map cleanly to a simple banned/allowed status without risking a wrong interpretation. The remaining ones are not yet covered (no public GIS source found — communicated only via news articles).

Input

Field	Type	Description
waterschappen	string[]	Which water authorities to include: de-dommel, vallei-en-veluwe, vechtstromen, aa-en-maas, hunze-en-aas. Default: all 5.
watergebruikType	string	Optional: get the verdringingsreeks priority category for a water use type (drinkwater, energievoorziening, kleinschalig_hoogwaardig, landbouw_beregening, industrie_overig, natuur). Leave empty to skip.
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of zone records to return across all selected authorities (1-2000). Default 1000.

Output

One flat JSON record per extraction zone:

{
  "land": "NL",
  "tipo": "onttrekkingsverbod_zone",
  "waterschap": "Aa en Maas",
  "gebied": "District Boven Aa",
  "onttrekkingsverbodStatus": "volledig",
  "typeVerbod": "Onttrekkingsverbod",
  "bronType": "oppervlaktewater",
  "verbodStartDatum": null,
  "verbodEindDatum": null,
  "bronDatum": "2026-07-09T04:29:36.000Z",
  "bronUrl": "https://gisservices.aaenmaas.nl/arcgis/rest/services/EXTERN/OnttrekkingsverbodOppwater/MapServer/1/query?...",
  "datumOpgehaald": "2026-07-19T09:42:42.588Z"
}

When watergebruikType is set, one additional record is added:

{
  "land": "NL",
  "tipo": "verdringingsreeks_classificatie",
  "watergebruikType": "landbouw_beregening",
  "categorie": 4,
  "categorieNaam": "Overige belangen (economische afweging, ook natuur)",
  "omschrijving": "...",
  "disclaimer": "Dit is een indicatieve classificatie... GEEN bindend besluit."
}

Use cases

• Agricultural irrigation planning for farms in the covered water authority areas.
• Advisory/legal support for clients holding a water extraction permit.
• Insurance/reinsurance risk screening for Dutch agricultural portfolios.
• Understanding legal water-allocation priority before a drought escalates.

Pricing

This Actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model.

• Actor Start: $0.00005 (Apify default)
• zone-record: $0.004 per delivered extraction zone record
• onttrekkingsverbod-signaal: $0.015 per zone record currently under a full or partial ban
• verdringingsreeks-classificatie: $0.004 per classification record (only when watergebruikType is set)

Legal

Data sourced exclusively from official Dutch water authorities' public open-data services (ArcGIS) and the official verdringingsreeks categories (Besluit kwaliteit leefomgeving, via iplo.nl). No personal data is processed. This Actor reports the latest officially published status; it does not provide legal advice, and the verdringingsreeks classification is an indicative estimate, not a binding decision — see the disclaimer field in that record.

FAQ

Q: Why only 7 of the 21 Dutch water authorities? A: There is no shared national data standard for extraction ban status — each authority publishes its own, differently-structured open-data source (or none at all). These 7 were individually verified to have a genuinely live, machine-readable source with an unambiguous banned/allowed status. Coverage may expand in future versions.

Q: What does "gedeeltelijk" (partial) mean? A: Some water authorities (e.g. Aa en Maas) distinguish a full ban from a more limited "beperkt onttrekkingsverbod" — reflected as gedeeltelijk in the output.

Q: What is the verdringingsreeks? A: The Dutch legal priority ranking (4 categories) used to allocate water among competing interests during a water shortage. Category 1 has highest priority (last to be cut off), category 4 lowest.

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Zoekwoorden: onttrekkingsverbod, waterschap droogte, beregeningsverbod, wateronttrekking verboden, verdringingsreeks, watertekort Nederland.

Keywords

netherlands, drought, water-extraction, onttrekkingsverbod, waterschap, verdringingsreeks, agriculture-risk, insurance-risk, climate-risk, open-data, water-scarcity

Changelog

0.2.0

• Added 2 more water authorities: Brabantse Delta and Stichtse Rijnlanden (HDSR) — 7 total.

0.1.0

• Initial release: extraction ban zones for 5 water authorities (De Dommel, Vallei en Veluwe, Vechtstromen, Aa en Maas, Hunze en Aa's), plus the verdringingsreeks priority classification tool.