EU Water Measure Indicator Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. The quantitative indicators behind Europe's water-restoration measures.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database into clean, per-record data — the quantitative INDICATORS that river basin districts attach to the key measures they plan against significant pressures and failing substances. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per indicator, structured for water-policy and progress analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

A Programme of Measures is only as concrete as the indicators that quantify it — how many kilometres restored, how many installations upgraded, how much load reduced. This actor reads the Key-Type-Measure indicator table and delivers one record per indicator: the country and river basin district, the KEY TYPE MEASURE, the INDICATOR, its 2021 VALUE, the significant PRESSURE and failing SUBSTANCE the measure addresses, and the surface/groundwater and Article 4.5 flags — all carried as filed. It is the quantitative-indicator layer of Europe's water-restoration effort.

Who buys this and for what job

• Water-policy analysts quantifying the scale of planned measures against pressures.
• Environmental consultancies benchmarking indicator values across basins and countries.
• Progress-tracking teams using the 2021 indicator value as a baseline.
• Data engineers who want the WISE WFD measure-indicator 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 programme entries as filed — not a compliance verdict.

River-basin grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a measure indicator for a river basin district — a coded indicator and its value, never a person. WISE WFD reporting is at river-basin level: there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted. The free-text "other indicator / other measure / other substance" 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 30,799 rows; this actor delivers the rows that carry an actual indicator — an exact COUNT(*) of 30,784 at build time, which matches the planning index for this category exactly. It carries the 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": "AT1000:KTM12 - Advisory services for agriculture:numberOfWaterBodies:EEA_33-77-2 - Dimethachlor CGA 369873:2022",
  "reporting_year": 2022,
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "eu_rbd_code": "AT1000",
  "rbd_name": "DANUBE",
  "eu_sub_unit_code": null,
  "sub_unit_name": null,
  "rbd_area_km2": 80638.676,
  "key_type_measure": "KTM12 - Advisory services for agriculture",
  "key_type_measure_indicator": "numberOfWaterBodies",
  "indicator_value_2021": "2.0",
  "significant_pressure": "Unpopulated",
  "substance_failing": "EEA_33-77-2 - Dimethachlor CGA 369873",
  "surface_water_or_groundwater": "groundwater",
  "use_article_4_5_beyond_2027": "0",
  "has_descriptive_data": 1,
  "file_url": "https://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/at/eu/wfd2022/districts/at1000/envzodafw/RBMPPoM_AT_AT1000_20220506.xml",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — Key Type Measure indicators for pressure/substance failures",
  "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": "Quantitative INDICATORS attached to the key measures a river basin district plans against significant pressures and failing substances, at RBD / measure-indicator grain from the EEA WISE WFD Programme of Measures (rows filtered to those carrying a recorded indicator). Each record carries the country and river basin district, the KEY TYPE MEASURE, the INDICATOR, its 2021 VALUE, the significant PRESSURE and failing SUBSTANCE it addresses, and the surface/groundwater and Article 4.5 flags VERBATIM. The free-text 'other indicator / other measure / other substance' fields are EXCLUDED at field selection. RBD grain — no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, and a person-key guard runs on every record.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:34:43Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
water_measure_indicator_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 indicator. Representative example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "DE1000:KTM2 - Reduce nutrient pollution from agriculture:Length of restored river:Nitrate:2022",
  "reporting_year": 2022,
  "country_code": "DE",
  "eu_rbd_code": "DE1000",
  "rbd_name": "RHINE",
  "key_type_measure": "KTM2 - Reduce nutrient pollution from agriculture",
  "key_type_measure_indicator": "Length of restored river",
  "indicator_value_2021": "120",
  "significant_pressure": "Diffuse - Agriculture",
  "substance_failing": "Nitrate",
  "surface_water_or_groundwater": "Groundwater",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — Key Type Measure indicators for pressure/substance failures",
  "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 measure indicator. Identity: record_id, country_code, country_name, eu_rbd_code, rbd_name, eu_sub_unit_code, sub_unit_name, rbd_area_km2, and reporting_year. Measure and indicator: key_type_measure, key_type_measure_indicator, and indicator_value_2021. Target: significant_pressure, substance_failing, surface_water_or_groundwater, and use_article_4_5_beyond_2027. 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 measure-indicator table (always keeping only rows with a real indicator, plus your optional countryCode and year), ordered by river basin district, and flattens each row to one record — carrying every coded label and value verbatim, never anything person-shaped and never the free-text fields — 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 30,784 rows across reporting countries, river basin districts, Key Type Measures, and indicators. Because each record carries the country_code, the eu_rbd_code, the key_type_measure, and the key_type_measure_indicator, segmenting by country, basin, measure or indicator is straightforward. Pull one country, one measure, or the whole table to seed a water-policy warehouse.

Working with the data

The indicators are a quantification layer, and the fields make them actionable. Because every record ties a key_type_measure to a specific key_type_measure_indicator with a 2021 value and the pressure/substance it targets, an analyst can total the planned scale of a measure across a country, compare indicator values between basins, and — joined to eu-pressure-substance-failure-records and eu-river-basin-measure-inventory-records — connect indicators back to the failures they address and the measures they belong to.

Cost guidance

One water_measure_indicator_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. Indicators and values are as filed by member states; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• 2021 value. The quantitative value carried is the reported 2021 figure; later-cycle values live in the 2024 reporting.
• Filtered to recorded indicators. Rows with no indicator are excluded by design.
• Acknowledge the EEA, and note there is no person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is the INDICATOR grain on its own table, distinct from eu-pressure-substance-failure-records (the pressure/substance failures themselves) and from eu-river-basin-measure-inventory-records (the measure inventory) — this cell carries the quantitative indicators attached to those measures. Its specific job is the WFD Key-Type-Measure indicators.

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. River-basin grain; no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Reported programme entries as filed, not a compliance verdict.