EU Bathing Water Quality Records — EEA BWD

Keyless. Pay per record. Every European bathing site's official water-quality classification, season by season.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) Bathing Water Directive (BWD) dataset into clean, per-site-season records — the official record of how each designated bathing water in Europe was classified each year. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service for the country you choose and delivers one row per bathing site per season: the site identifier, the country, the zone type, the season, and the quality classification — carried exactly as published, including the "not classified" and "not sufficiently sampled" values. Site-period-quality grain, structured for engineering use, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Under the Bathing Water Directive, member states classify every designated bathing water — coastal and inland — each season, and the EEA aggregates and publishes the result. This actor reads that register and flattens each site-season assessment into a single analysis-ready record: the bathing-water identifier, the country, the specialised zone type (coastal or inland lake/river), the season year, the monitoring-calendar and management indicators, and the two classification fields — the original classification and the harmonised quality label. Classification labels are carried verbatim, including the honest "0 - Not classified", "0 - Missing data", and "not sufficiently sampled" states — never upgraded to a settled quality. Values are exactly as published. You are billed only for records actually delivered.

Who buys this and for what job

• Travel, tourism, and property products surfacing bathing-water quality by site and year for coastal and lakeside locations.
• Environmental-research and public-health teams studying bathing-water quality trends across Europe over time.
• ESG and destination-analytics tools scoring regions on water quality across seasons.
• Data engineers who want the BWD classification history as clean rows without writing SQL against the EEA service or paging a very large table.

EEA licence — reuse with acknowledgement

One licence rider travels on every record. EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)." Where third-party content is marked, it keeps its own terms. This rider is carried in this README and on every record. The data is a classification register as reported by member states — not a real-time swimming advisory. A site classified for a past season says nothing about water quality today.

Site-period grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a bathing site in a given season. The register carries no natural-person fields, and this actor emits none; a person-key guard runs on every record as a pure backstop. The site identifier, zone type, season, and classification labels are the entire payload.

A required partition — this is a 679,622-row dataset

The full classification history runs to over 679,000 site-season rows, so this actor requires a partition: every run must set a 2-letter countryCode. A run with no country is rejected in code before any work begins — the whole table cannot be pulled unbounded. An optional season narrows further, and maxRecords is the hard ceiling. One country's full history is typically a few thousand to tens of thousands of rows.

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
bathing_water_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryCode	string	—	Required 2-letter member-state code (e.g. ES, FR, IT).
season	integer	—	Optional bathing season / year to filter (e.g. 2023).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per site-season assessment. Real example (values as published):

{
  "record_id": "ES511:2023",
  "bathing_water_identifier": "ES511",
  "country_code": "ES",
  "season": 2023,
  "specialised_zone_type": "coastalBathingWater",
  "quality_original_classification": "E - Excellent",
  "quality": "1 - Excellent",
  "source": "European Environment Agency (EEA) Bathing Water Directive",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) ... provided the source is acknowledged ...",
  "disclaimer": "Bathing-water quality-classification records ... labels are carried VERBATIM, including 'Not classified' ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the country and season, rows seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one site-season assessment. Identity: record_id (site id + season), bathing_water_identifier, country_code, and season. Character: specialised_zone_type, reported_specialised_zone_type, monitoring_calendar, and management. Classification (verbatim): quality_original_classification and quality. Reference: uid. Provenance: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the EEA DiscoData host — and stops at the door if that ever changes. It then queries the bathing-water status table through the DiscoData SQL service, bounding the query to your countryCode (and optional season), and pages through the results. Each site-season is flattened to one record — carrying the classification labels verbatim, never upgrading a "not classified" or "not sufficiently sampled" to a settled quality — delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your maxRecords ceiling and records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The classification history holds over 679,000 site-season rows across all reporting countries and seasons since the 1990s. A partition is required precisely because of that scale: one country's full history is a bounded, affordable pull, and a single season isolates one year. Because each record carries the bathing_water_identifier and season, a site's multi-year quality trajectory reconstructs by a simple join.

Cost guidance

One bathing_water_record per delivered assessment: cost = rows delivered × your plan's per-record price. Always scope with countryCode and optionally season. 1,000 assessments is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold). One country-season is typically a few hundred to a couple of thousand rows.

Honest limitations

• A classification register, not a live advisory. These are season classifications as reported — not a real-time swimming-safety reading.
• Partition required. Every run must set a countryCode; the whole table cannot be pulled unbounded.
• Verbatim labels. "Not classified", "Missing data", and "not sufficiently sampled" are carried exactly as published and never upgraded.
• Acknowledge the EEA. The acknowledgement travels on every record.
• No person data of any kind.

Differentiation

This is a net-new category for the NexGenData fleet — no existing fleet actor covers bathing-water quality. It is distinct from the fleet's other EEA water cells (waste-water treatment compliance and water-body determinand observations carry facility or chemistry data, not the bathing-water classification) and from any emissions cell. Its specific job is the EEA Bathing Water Directive classification history — site by site, season by season.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• EU Wastewater Compliance Records — EEA UWWTD
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA WISE Waterbase
• EU Industrial Emissions Records — EEA IED Facilities
• EU Natura 2000 Site Records — EEA Protected Sites
• England Flood Station Records — EA Monitoring

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Bathing Water Directive (BWD) dataset (discodata.eea.europa.eu). EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)"; marked third-party content keeps its own terms. Classification register, not a real-time advisory; labels carried verbatim. Site-period grain; no person data of any kind.