EU Renewable Freshwater Resource Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. Europe's renewable freshwater resource volumes, by basin and period.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE State of Environment (SOE) Waterbase into clean, per-record data — the renewable freshwater resource volumes that European countries and basins report: precipitation, groundwater recharge, and the other components of the water balance. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per observation, structured for water-resource and climate analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

The renewable freshwater resource of a territory is the water that flows in each year through precipitation, recharge and inflow — the ceiling on what can be sustainably used. This actor reads the EEA Waterbase renewable-freshwater table and delivers one record per reported observation: the country, the spatial unit (a country or river basin district, with its identifier scheme), the observed PARAMETER, the reference period, and the observed VOLUME in million cubic metres — all carried as filed. It is the renewable-water-resource layer of Europe's state-of-environment reporting.

Who buys this and for what job

• Water-resource and drought analysts benchmarking renewable resource volumes across basins and years.
• Climate and hydrology researchers tracking precipitation and recharge components over time.
• Agri-economics and utilities teams sizing sustainable abstraction against renewable supply.
• Data engineers who want the WISE SOE renewable-freshwater 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 values as filed — not a modelled estimate of this actor's making.

Basin / country grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a renewable-freshwater observation for a spatial unit — a basin or country and its reported volume, never a person. WISE SOE Waterbase reporting is at spatial-unit level: there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted — the query keeps only the spatial-unit identity, the parameter, the period, and the volume with its status flags. The free-text remarks and metadata-statements 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 60,521 rows as verified by an exact COUNT(*) at build time, which matches the planning index for this category. It spans reporting countries, spatial units, parameters, and years. 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": "AL:ART_GW_RECH:2022",
  "country_code": "AL",
  "spatial_unit_identifier": "AL",
  "spatial_unit_scheme": "countryCode",
  "observed_property": "ART_GW_RECH",
  "phenomenon_time_period": "2022",
  "phenomenon_year": "2022",
  "phenomenon_month": null,
  "result_observed_volume_hm3": 0,
  "result_observation_status": "A",
  "observation_status": "A",
  "status_code": "stable",
  "source_uid": "75482",
  "source": "EEA WISE State of Environment (SOE) — renewable freshwater resources (Waterbase T_WISE3)",
  "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 State of Environment (SOE) Waterbase (discodata.eea.europa.eu).",
  "disclaimer": "Renewable freshwater resource volumes reported by European countries and basins under the EEA WISE State of Environment Waterbase, at spatial-unit / period / parameter grain. Each record carries the country, the spatial unit (identifier and scheme), the observed PARAMETER (e.g. precipitation, groundwater recharge), the reference period, and the observed VOLUME in million cubic metres VERBATIM, plus observation-status flags. The free-text remarks and metadata-statements fields are EXCLUDED at field selection. Basin/country grain — there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field selected or emitted, and a person-key guard runs on every record.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:33:43Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
renewable_freshwater_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 reference year to filter (e.g. 2020, 2022).
maxRecords	integer	10	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Default changed on 30 Sep 2026: if you leave maxRecords out, a run now returns up to 10 records (it was 500). Set maxRecords yourself to get more — the maximum is unchanged.

Output

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

{
  "record_id": "SE4:PRECIP:2000-02",
  "country_code": "SE",
  "spatial_unit_identifier": "SE4",
  "spatial_unit_scheme": "euRBDCode",
  "observed_property": "PRECIP",
  "phenomenon_time_period": "2000-02",
  "phenomenon_year": "2000",
  "phenomenon_month": "02",
  "result_observed_volume_hm3": 2152.0,
  "status_code": "experimental",
  "source": "EEA WISE State of Environment (SOE) — renewable freshwater resources (Waterbase T_WISE3)",
  "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 renewable-freshwater observation. Identity: record_id, country_code, spatial_unit_identifier, spatial_unit_scheme, and source_uid. Observation: observed_property (the parameter), phenomenon_time_period, phenomenon_year, phenomenon_month, and result_observed_volume_hm3 (million cubic metres). Status: result_observation_status, observation_status, and status_code. 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 SOE renewable-freshwater table (filtered to your optional countryCode and year), ordered by the high-cardinality spatial-unit identifier, and flattens each row to one record — carrying every value verbatim, never anything person-shaped and never the free-text remarks — 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 60,521 rows across reporting countries, spatial units, parameters, and reference years. Because each record carries the country_code, the spatial_unit_identifier, the observed_property, and the phenomenon_year, segmenting by country, basin, parameter, or year is straightforward. Pull one country, one parameter, or the whole table to seed a water-resource warehouse.

Working with the data

The resource volumes are a supply layer, and the fields make them actionable. Because every record pairs a spatial unit with an observed_property and a result_observed_volume_hm3 for a period, an analyst can build a time series of renewable resource by basin, compare precipitation against recharge, and normalise abstraction (from the companion abstraction cell) against renewable supply to flag stressed basins.

Cost guidance

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

Honest limitations

• As reported. Volumes and parameters are as filed by countries for the SOE reporting; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• Experimental status kept verbatim. Some observations are flagged experimental; the status is carried through as reported.
• Parameters vary. The observed_property distinguishes precipitation, recharge and other components — filter on it for a single parameter.
• Acknowledge the EEA, and note there is no person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is the renewable-SUPPLY layer, distinct from the water-abstraction, water-return, and reservoir cells (which measure use and storage). Its specific job is the WISE SOE renewable freshwater resources.

The NexGen Signal family

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

• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA
• EU Nitrate Monitoring Records — EEA
• EU Bathing Water Quality Records — EEA
• EU Industrial Emissions Records — EEA
• EU Surface Water Priority Substance Records — EEA

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE State of Environment (SOE) Waterbase (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. Basin/country grain; the free-text remarks are excluded; no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Reported values as filed, not a modelled estimate.