EU Modified Waterbody Use Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. The water uses behind Europe's heavily modified water bodies.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database into clean, per-record data — the water USES that member states cite to designate a surface water as HEAVILY MODIFIED. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per use, structured for water-management and economic analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

A water body is designated heavily modified because a specific water USE — navigation, hydropower, flood protection, drinking-water storage, and the like — depends on the physical changes that keep it from good status. This actor reads that water-use table and delivers one record per entry: the country, river basin district and sub-unit, the surface water body (code, name, category), the natural/artificial/heavily-modified designation, the WATER USE, and the body's ecological and chemical status — all carried as filed. It is the use-justification layer behind Europe's heavily-modified designations, the sibling of the alteration cell.

Who buys this and for what job

• Navigation, hydropower and water-supply analysts mapping which uses drive modified-water designations.
• Economic and policy teams weighing the uses cited against restoration options.
• Water-policy researchers studying how use-based justification varies by country.
• Data engineers who want the WISE WFD heavily-modified use table as clean rows from a keyless source.

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. These are reported classifications as filed — not a compliance verdict.

Water-body grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a water use for a surface water body — a water body and a coded use, never a person. WISE WFD reporting is at water-body level: there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted. The free-text "other pressure / other impact" narrative fields are EXCLUDED at field selection. A person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.

A note on scale, honestly

The source table holds 49,581 rows; this actor delivers the rows that carry an actual water use — an exact COUNT(*) of 48,327 at build time, which matches the planning index for this category exactly. It carries both the 2016 and 2022 WFD reporting cycles (the reporting_year field distinguishes them). The live count above is authoritative.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "ATOK100020003:Energy - hydropower:2016",
  "reporting_year": 2016,
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "eu_rbd_code": "AT2000",
  "rbd_name": "RHINE",
  "eu_sub_unit_code": "AT2100",
  "sub_unit_name": "RHINE",
  "eu_surface_water_body_code": "ATOK100020003",
  "surface_water_body_name": "NO INTERNATIONAL NAME",
  "surface_water_body_category": "RW",
  "natural_awb_hmwb": "Heavily modified water body",
  "water_use": "Energy - hydropower",
  "sw_ecological_status_value": "3",
  "sw_chemical_status_value": "3",
  "surface_water_body_transboundary": "No",
  "has_descriptive_data": 1,
  "file_url": "http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/at/eu/wfd2016/districts/at2000/envwvtbw/SWB_AT_20170509.xml",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — heavily modified water body water uses",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE database under EU environmental reporting. Reuse is permitted, including for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged: 'Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)'. Third-party content, where marked, keeps its own terms.",
  "attribution": "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database (discodata.eea.europa.eu).",
  "disclaimer": "Water USES supporting the designation of European surface waters as HEAVILY MODIFIED, at water-body / use grain from the EEA WISE WFD database (rows filtered to those carrying a recorded use). Each record carries the country, river basin district and sub-unit, the surface water body (code, name, category), the natural/AWB/HMWB designation, the WATER USE, and the body's ecological and chemical status labels VERBATIM. The free-text 'other pressure/impact' narrative fields are EXCLUDED at field selection. Water-body grain — no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, and a person-key guard runs on every record.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:33:26Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
modified_waterbody_use_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	—	Optional 2-letter country code (e.g. DE, FR).
year	integer	—	Optional WFD reporting cycle year (e.g. 2016, 2022).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per water use. Representative example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "DERW0001:Navigation, ports or recreation:2022",
  "reporting_year": 2022,
  "country_code": "DE",
  "eu_rbd_code": "DE1000",
  "rbd_name": "RHINE",
  "eu_surface_water_body_code": "DERW0001",
  "surface_water_body_category": "River",
  "natural_awb_hmwb": "Heavily modified water body",
  "water_use": "Navigation, ports or recreation",
  "sw_ecological_status_value": "3",
  "sw_chemical_status_value": "2",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — heavily modified water body water uses",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z"
}

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

Field reference

Each record is one water use. Identity: record_id, country_code, country_name, eu_rbd_code, rbd_name, eu_sub_unit_code, sub_unit_name, eu_surface_water_body_code, surface_water_body_name, surface_water_body_category, and reporting_year. Designation and use: natural_awb_hmwb and water_use. Status: sw_ecological_status_value, sw_chemical_status_value, and surface_water_body_transboundary. Plus has_descriptive_data and file_url. Provenance travels on every record: 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 pages the WISE WFD heavily-modified use table (always keeping only rows with a real water use, plus your optional countryCode and year), ordered by the high-cardinality water-body code, and flattens each row to one record — carrying every coded label verbatim, never anything person-shaped and never the free-text narrative — 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 table holds 48,327 rows across reporting countries, river basin districts, water uses, and the 2016 and 2022 cycles. Because each record carries the country_code, the water-body code, the water_use, and the reporting_year, segmenting by country, basin, use or cycle is straightforward. Pull one country, one water use, or the whole table to seed a water-status warehouse.

Working with the data

The uses are an economic-justification layer, and the fields make them actionable. Because every record pairs a water body with a water_use and its ecological status, an analyst can rank the uses most often cited for modified designations, and — joined to the paired eu-modified-waterbody-alteration-records on the water-body code — line each water use up against the physical alteration that serves it.

Cost guidance

One modified_waterbody_use_record per delivered row: cost = rows delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with countryCode and year. 1,000 rows is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• As reported. Uses and status are as filed by member states; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• Filtered to recorded uses. Water bodies with no recorded use are excluded by design; the full table is larger.
• Two cycles merged. The reporting_year field distinguishes the 2016 and 2022 cycles.
• Acknowledge the EEA, and note there is no person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is the USE half of the heavily-modified-designation evidence — a distinct source table from its paired sibling eu-modified-waterbody-alteration-records (the physical alterations), proven independently by count, and different from the surface-water status, pressure and impact cells. Its specific job is the WFD heavily-modified water uses.

The NexGen Signal family

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

• EU Surface Water Priority Substance Records — EEA
• EU Pressure Substance Failure Records — EEA
• EU River Basin Measure Inventory Records — EEA
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA
• EU Nitrate Monitoring Records — EEA

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database (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. Water-body grain; no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Reported classifications as filed for the WFD reporting cycle, not a compliance verdict.