EU Surface Water Significant Impact Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. The significant impacts officially recorded on each of Europe's surface water bodies — the effects, not the causes.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database into clean, per-record data — the significant impacts officially recorded on Europe's surface water bodies. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per impact record, structured for water-status and catchment analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Under the Water Framework Directive, member states record the significant impacts observed on each surface water body — the effects, such as nutrient enrichment, organic enrichment, or altered habitats, that result from the pressures acting on it. This actor reads that impact table and delivers one record per water body / impact-type / cycle: the country, river basin, and water body; its ecological and chemical status labels; and the significant IMPACT TYPE recorded — all carried as filed. It is the impact layer of Europe's surface-water assessment, the effect side of the pressure–impact pair.

Who buys this and for what job

• Catchment and river-restoration teams mapping the impacts observed on water bodies
• Water-status analysts correlating impacts with pressures and status
• Researchers studying the effects reported across Europe's surface waters
• Data engineers who want the WISE WFD surface-water significant-impact 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 and status labels as filed — not a compliance verdict.

Water-body grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a significant-impact attribution for a surface water body — an effect line, never a person. There is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source, and none is selected or emitted; the free-text 'other' pressure and impact narrative fields are excluded at field selection. A person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.

A required partition — this is a large dataset

The table holds 704,507 rows, so this actor requires a partition: every run must set a countryCode. The country bounds the run; there is no unbounded all-Europe pull. An optional year filter narrows further, and maxRecords is the hard ceiling.

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
sw_impact_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 country code (e.g. DE, FR).
year	integer	—	Optional reporting cycle year to filter.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per impact record. Real example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "ATOK1000010000:Nutrient enrichment:2016",
  "reporting_year": 2016,
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "eu_rbd_code": "AT1000",
  "rbd_name": "DANUBE",
  "eu_surface_water_body_code": "ATOK1000010000",
  "surface_water_body_name": "Example Reach",
  "surface_water_body_category": "RW",
  "ecological_status_or_potential_value": "3",
  "chemical_status_value": "2",
  "significant_impact_type": "Nutrient enrichment",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) \u2014 surface-water significant impacts",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}

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 impact attribution. 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. Status: ecological_status_or_potential_value and chemical_status_value. Impact: significant_impact_type. Plus 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 surface-water significant-impact table (filtered to your required countryCode and optional year), and flattens each row to one record — carrying every status label and value verbatim, never anything person-shaped — 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 on the order of 704,507 rows. Because each record carries the country_code, the water-body identity, and the impact type, segmenting is straightforward. Pull one slice, or the whole table to seed a warehouse.

Working with the data

The impacts are the effect layer, and the fields make them countable. Because every record pairs a significant_impact_type with the body's status labels, an analyst can rank the most common impacts in a basin and correlate them with ecological status. Joined to the pressure cell on the water-body code, the impacts complete the pressure→impact chain. The reporting_year tracks change between cycles.

Identifiers and joins

Every record carries the eu_surface_water_body_code, keying each impact to the fleet's surface-water pressure, priority-substance, and exemption cells for the same body, on a shared identifier.

Impacts versus pressures

The directive is careful to separate a PRESSURE (the driver — diffuse agricultural pollution, an abstraction, a dam) from an IMPACT (the observed effect — nutrient enrichment, altered habitat, lowered flow). This cell reads the impact table; the pressure cells read the pressure tables. Pulling both and joining on the water-body code reconstructs the full pressure→impact→status chain the WFD assessment is built on, with each half priced and delivered independently.

Cost guidance

One sw_impact_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. Status labels, values, and flags are as filed; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• A label, not a verdict. These are reported classifications and outcomes, not an independent compliance or health assessment.
• 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. It is distinct from eu-waterbody-pressure-source-records and eu-groundwater-pressure-source-records — those cells record the PRESSURES (the causes), while this cell records the IMPACTS (the effects); impacts vs pressures. Its specific job is the WFD surface-water significant impacts.

The NexGen Signal family

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

• EU Waterbody Pressure Source Records — EEA WISE
• EU Groundwater Pollutant Failure Records — EEA WISE
• EU Surface Water Priority Substance Records — EEA WISE
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA
• EU Water Emission Load Records — EEA WISE

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 / impact-type / cycle grain; no contact/operator/responsible-person field selected or emitted, free-text 'other' narrative excluded. No natural-person data of any kind. Values and status labels as filed, not a compliance verdict.