EU Water Use Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. How much water Europe uses, by sector, basin and period.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE State of Environment (SOE) Waterbase into clean, per-record data — the water USE and abstraction volumes European countries and basins report, split by use type: domestic supply, industry, agriculture, and more. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per observation, structured for water-resource and economic analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Alongside how much renewable water a territory has, the EEA tracks how much it actually uses. This actor reads the Waterbase water-use 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 USE PARAMETER, the reference period, and the observed VOLUME in million cubic metres — all carried as filed. It is the water-demand layer of Europe's state-of-environment reporting, the companion to the renewable-resource and abstraction cells.

Who buys this and for what job

• Water-resource and drought analysts benchmarking demand against renewable supply by basin.
• Utilities and agri-economics teams sizing sectoral water use over time.
• Climate and sustainability researchers tracking use intensity across countries.
• Data engineers who want the WISE SOE water-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 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 water-use 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 use 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 13,153 rows as verified by an exact COUNT(*) at build time, which matches the planning index for this category exactly. It spans reporting countries, spatial units, use 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:WU_DOM:2016",
  "country_code": "AL",
  "spatial_unit_identifier": "AL",
  "spatial_unit_scheme": "countryCode",
  "observed_property": "WU_DOM",
  "phenomenon_time_period": "2016",
  "phenomenon_year": "2016",
  "phenomenon_month": null,
  "result_observed_volume_hm3": 96.6968,
  "result_observation_status": "A",
  "observation_status": "A",
  "status_code": "stable",
  "source_uid": "11819",
  "source": "EEA WISE State of Environment (SOE) — water use volumes (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": "Water USE and abstraction volumes reported by European countries and basins under the EEA WISE State of Environment Waterbase, at spatial-unit / period / use-type grain. Each record carries the country, the spatial unit (identifier and scheme), the observed USE PARAMETER (e.g. domestic, industrial, agricultural supply), 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 — no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, and a person-key guard runs on every record.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:34:47Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
water_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 reference year to filter (e.g. 2016, 2020).
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": "AL:WU_DOM:2016",
  "country_code": "AL",
  "spatial_unit_identifier": "AL",
  "spatial_unit_scheme": "countryCode",
  "observed_property": "WU_DOM",
  "phenomenon_time_period": "2016",
  "phenomenon_year": "2016",
  "result_observed_volume_hm3": 320.5,
  "status_code": "experimental",
  "source": "EEA WISE State of Environment (SOE) — water use volumes (Waterbase T_WISE3)",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-30T00:00:00Z"
}

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 observation. Identity: record_id, country_code, spatial_unit_identifier, spatial_unit_scheme, and source_uid. Observation: observed_property (the use 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 water-use 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 13,153 rows across reporting countries, spatial units, use 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, use type, or year is straightforward. Pull one country, one use parameter, or the whole table to seed a water-resource warehouse.

Working with the data

The use volumes are a demand 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 water use by sector and basin, and — joined to the renewable-freshwater and abstraction cells on the spatial unit — compute a use-to-availability ratio to flag stressed basins.

Cost guidance

One water_use_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 domestic, industrial and agricultural use — filter on it for a single sector.
• Acknowledge the EEA, and note there is no person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is the water-DEMAND layer, a distinct source table from the live eu-water-abstraction-records (Waterbase T_WISE3 abstraction) and eu-renewable-freshwater-resource-records (the renewable supply). Its specific job is the WISE SOE water-use volumes.

The NexGen Signal family

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

• EU Water Abstraction Records — EEA
• EU Renewable Freshwater Resource Records — EEA
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA
• EU Historical Flood Event Records — EEA
• EU Protected Site Positive Impact 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.