Water Information System for Europe (WISE) State-of-Play and Perspectives

Common objective The EU bodies (DG ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA) and EU25 Member States, Norway, Bulgaria and Romania agreed on the Water Directors’ meeting in November 2003 the: “Development of a new, comprehensive, shared European data and information management system for water, including river basins (WISE). The system should be based on the concept paper and should be fully implemented by 2010”

What is WISE? The “Water Information System for Europe” is: an idea/vision (2002) a concept (2003) – concept paper published on internet a process (2003 …) – Working Group D on Reporting a co-operation (between EU bodies and MS) a set of tools (GIS, prototype, RTD, …) an internet and “single entry” portal a definition of reporting requirements a gateway for (public) information (2006)

WISE state-of-play Input prototype online (http://wise.jrc.cec.eu.int) WFD reporting 2004, 2005 and 2007 (Art. 3, 5+8) WFD 2004 reporting tool online, 2005 tool ready for submission 18 MS completed WISE reporting 2004, several MS have submitted 2005 data as part of testing Screening studies completed to integrate other databases – UWWT and intercalibration WISE Implementation Plan 2006-2010, agreed in principle

Submissions status

Submissions stats

Mapping interface

Map point and click

Detail report

Statistics option is new

Multiple Member states

International River Basins

Bar charts and pie charts

WISE Implementation Plan 2006-2010 A „living“ document reflecting the discussion bewteen the main developers DG Environment, Eurostat, Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agencyon the system development - Key principles (Chap. 1 and 2) Project management (Chap. 2 and 3) Functions (Chap. 3) Architecture (Chap. 4) Tasks to be adressed (Cha. 4 and 5) Data to be included (Chap. 5) Timing (Chap. 5) The access limitations etc. Is handled in the WISE portal user administration. The resulting flash application(s) made available at the client PC will be dependent on the user credentials.

WISE IP - Key principles Distributed data nodes Use of INSPIRE guidelines Use of industry mapping standards Report once use many – harmonise reporting tools Integrate SoE and compliance reporting Users can build own services to connect their data to WISE or access WISE data Layers can be grouped in different ways. These layers can come from different map services and be grouped by a simple XML file. Multi linguality is one of the options.

WISE IP - Key elements Provides next steps, explanation on the model, definitions of tasks, distribution of responsibilities It is a flexible work programme for the coming years - in 3 main stages Strategic planning, does not provide all details Last version agreed in principle but needs final compilation and editing Summary WISE IP incl. resource needs will be drafted and agreed between the institutions New WISE GIS will provide multilevel GIS infrastructure

Project management elements The access limitations etc. Is handled in the WISE portal user administration. The resulting flash application(s) made available at the client PC will be dependent on the user credentials.

WISE vision - 2010 Now 2006 OUTPUT INPUT 2010 Member states WFD prototype Map Server Member states Member states EOINET water Water base Member states 2006 Member states WISE prototype Member states Access protocols Member states State of env’ment Member states OUTPUT INPUT WISE public Member states Inter calibrat’n Member states Member states Urban WWD Member states 2010 WFD, UWWD WISE public Push Pull protocols Access protocols EIONET Water WISE expert Member states Member states ESTAT Other policies/ users WISE analysis

Tentative timetable for integration of other Directives Urban Water Water Treatment - 2005/6 Nitrate Directive – 2007 Bathing Waters Directive –2007/8 Drinking Water Directive –2007/8 Thereafter (to be decided) ESTAT/OECD Joint questionnaire Marine strategy Floods initiative

WISE perspective Optional data 20?? Extension data 2010 Core data 2006 * includes all WFD compliance data - Art. 3, 5, 8, 13 and intercalibration Optional data (link to other IT system – decentralised) 20?? Extension data (Construction Phase in WISE IP) 2010 Core data WFD*, UWWD, EIONET Water 2006 (Preparation Phase) Other compliance data (nitrates, bathing, drinking, marine, flood protection), statistical data, research ICPDR OSPAR EPER PRTR others Rhine National systems ICES

Entry page to the WISE public web site

Access under http://dataservice.eea.eu.int/wise Viewer options Explain that more than one viewer can be hooked up here

UWWTD data in the north of England You should note that it is simply a viewer with limited analytical functionality. If queries were to be made between different servers on big datasets, this will slow the service down and probably frustrate the user. Also the Viewer is totally dependent on the quality of the data supplied by the members of state. Expertise is needed on these datasets to pull the maximum value from them. Therefore close collaboration will be needed between the different parties involved.

UWWTD, CCM, EIONET Water and Corine landcover in the North of England You should note that it is simply a viewer with limited analytical functionality. If queries were to be made between different servers on big datasets, this will slow the service down and probably frustrate the user. Also the Viewer is totally dependent on the quality of the data supplied by the members of state. Expertise is needed on these datasets to pull the maximum value from them. Therefore close collaboration will be needed between the different parties involved.

Architecture: Synchronisation of independent data nodes WISE node WISE public web site WISE node EU country XLATE SYNC Continuous sync (XML) WISE node (e.g. ESTAT/GISCO) XLATE SYNC SYNC XLATE WISE data & viewer WISE node (e.g. JRC) WISE node (e.g. EEA) SYNC WISE data & viewer SYNC XLATE XLATE WISE data Data Upload Data Upload

WISE IP – success factors Joint ownership and leadership of DG ENV, EEA, ESTAT, JRC The co-operation of the Member States EU25 and the EEA member countries All Reporting Groups (WFD Compliance, UWWT, SOE and others) Int. river commissions Definition of core data set against which reporting is made (decentralised set up with central reference data base) Provision of access to all information types Numerical data (raw), ecological status (computed), thematic maps, reports, downloads, documents (e.g. methodologies)

Outlook WISE is the best way forward for water-related reporting Joint process of EU bodies and MS is crucial for success WISE conceptually fully integrated in wider environmental reporting discussion (incl. INSPIRE) WISE will be, what we want it to be and what we make out of it!