EU Waterbody Pressure Source Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. The significant pressures attributed to each of Europe's surface water bodies — type and group, verbatim.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database into clean, per-record data — the significant pressures attributed to Europe's surface water bodies. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per pressure attribution, 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 attribute the significant pressures acting on each surface water body. This actor reads that pressure table and delivers one record per water body / pressure-type / cycle: the country, river basin, and water body; its ecological and chemical status labels; and the significant PRESSURE TYPE and its group attributed to that water body — all carried as filed. It is the pressure-attribution layer of Europe's surface-water assessment.

Who buys this and for what job

• Catchment and river-restoration teams mapping which pressures act on which water bodies
• Water-management analysts quantifying pressure prevalence across basins
• Researchers studying pressure attribution and its link to status
• Data engineers who want the WISE WFD surface-water significant-pressure 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-pressure attribution for a surface water body — a water body and its reported attributes, never a person. WISE reporting is at water-body / river-basin level: there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted — the query reads only the water-body identity, the status/flags, and the pressure type and group; 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. The file_url points to the official Eionet/CDR reporting file, never a person.

A required partition — this is a large dataset

The table holds 859,719 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 (reporting cycle) filter narrows further, and maxRecords is the hard ceiling.

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
waterbody_pressure_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 (e.g. 2016, 2022).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per pressure attribution. Real example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "ATOK1000010000:2.1 - Diffuse - Agricultural: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",
  "ecological_status_or_potential_value": "3",
  "chemical_status_value": "2",
  "significant_pressure_type": "2.1 - Diffuse - Agricultural",
  "significant_pressure_type_group": "Diffuse",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) \u2014 surface-water significant pressures",
  "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 pressure 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. Pressure: significant_pressure_type and significant_pressure_type_group. 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-pressure 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 859,719 rows across reporting countries, river basin districts, and the 2016 and 2022 WFD reporting cycles. Because each record carries the country_code, the water-body identity, and the reporting_year, segmenting by country, basin, or cycle is straightforward. Pull one country, or the whole table to seed a water-status warehouse.

Working with the data

The attributions are a driver map, and the fields make them countable. Because every record pairs a significant_pressure_type with the body's status labels, an analyst can rank which pressures are most prevalent in a basin and correlate them with status, and the significant_pressure_type_group rolls the detailed types up to families (diffuse, point, hydromorphology). The reporting_year tracks change between cycles.

Identifiers and joins

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

Cost guidance

One waterbody_pressure_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, reasons, and values are as filed by member states for the WFD reporting cycle; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• A label, not a verdict. These are reported classifications, assessments, and reasons, not an independent compliance assessment.
• Two cycles merged. The table carries both the 2016 and 2022 reporting cycles; the reporting_year field distinguishes them.
• 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-pressure-substance-failure-records — that cell is the river-basin PRESSURE-to-failing-SUBSTANCE crosswalk, while this cell attributes significant PRESSURES to individual WATER BODIES; water-body pressure attribution vs pressure-substance crosswalk. Its specific job is the WFD surface-water significant-pressure attributions.

The NexGen Signal family

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

• EU Groundwater Chemical Exemption Records — EEA WISE
• EU Surface Water Chemical Exemption Records — EEA WISE
• EU Pressure Substance Failure Records — EEA WISE
• EU Surface Water Failing Pollutant Records — EEA WISE
• EU Waterbody Quality 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 / pressure-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.