Stefan Jensen EU water directors meeting, Saarisälkaa, FI 30.11.2006 The launch of the public WISE viewer and website - 111 days to launch - Stefan Jensen EU water directors meeting, Saarisälkaa, FI 30.11.2006

Key WISE IT system principles A joint development initially by DG Environment, Eurostat, the JRC and EEA stepwise opening up to other partners Tasks allocated to all partners Distributed system architecture 5 year WISE planning and management Overcome the seperation between SoE and regulatory reporting Currently guided by a set of groups and processes under the WfD (MS participation)

What do we develop: A public website (http://water.europa.eu ) offering information on European water issues incl. data and themes - EEA water data centre policy – DG Environment projects – RTD/JRC A public map viewer providing access to data displaying European datasets available under WISE integrating those datasets following predefined ”expert queries” and thematic maps

The draft data website II. MAP Viewer I. Welcome Screen III. VI. Quick Information Reporting obligations Background Background of WISE Viewer Assessment reports III. Administrative items VI. Water Status Objectives River Basin Districts Quality Elements Competent Authorities SW Status II. MAP Viewer Ecoregions GW Status EEA EIONET Background Surface Waters IV. Water Bodies VII. Monitoring Monitoring Sites Groundwater Surface Waters Artificial Water Bodies Groundwater Heavily Modified Water Bodies IX. Resources Protected Areas Overview Drinking Water Overview V. Water Pollution VIII. Protected Areas Recreational Water Point Sources FAQs Glossary Links Message Board Disclaimer Economical Species Diffuse Sources Nutrient Sensitive Prevention Strategies Bird Protection -means topic has spatial data content i.e. is linked to MAP Viewer Habitat Protection

Which data will it contain at the launch: Thematic data EIONET water data water quality data from monitoring stations on rivers and lakes WFD Art.3 data river basins, river basin districts and international river basin districts competent authorities large rivers and lakes main rivers and lakes OR Teleatlas data - where Art3. data is not available / too difficult to integrate Derived from WFD Art.5 data waterbodies at risk heavily modified waterbodies (if delivered and quality assured) European bathing water data Data from EU15 countries reporting under the Urban Waste Water Directive agglomerations, sensitive areas (where useful) Intercalibration (simplified)

Which data will it contain at the launch: Expert queries e.g. based on the full SoE data as in EIONET water Water quality data in rivers, lakes and groundwater (overview) Pollutants (nitrates, ammonium, BOD5, phosphorus) in rivers and lakes – latest year and timeseries Summary of monitoring stations by catchments size (pending) Relation between nitrate concentration in rivers and agriculture River basin districts, competent authorities, main rivers and lakes ... Thematic maps e.g. Nitrates from monitoring aggregated to Rivers Basins Districts Integrated data in support of an Ecosystem approach

Which data will it contain at the launch: Background data (optional for viewing) Teleatlas rivers and lakes Digital elevation model CCM2 Corine Landcover CLC 2000 land-use data Image 2000 (satellite data)

Where we are on technology: Distributed node technology developed and partly applied (“multi-connector”) XML based communication between modules developed and enabled Map viewer draft version available - map viewing and navigation (INSPIRE service) - data query function - simple graphs - simple time series In 2007 and 2008 further INSPIRE type services will be developed: Metadata catalogues Data downloading functions (determined by WISE data policy)

Map viewer user profiles Users Public/ neighbourhood thematic maps Experts/ advanced Messages Potential issues on water quality in ”my area” Simple, overview messages on the European scale Full access to European datasets, many combination, Data used Point data from EIONET-water, UWWT and bathing water Simple maps from EIONET water, Art.3 and UWWT All data layers available Implementation Simple „1-2 click“ approach „flexible navigation“ Many clicks Services View, simple query View, potentially data download, notification View, manipulate, download, link systems,notify

Water directors are informed and asked for comments Please try out the application from 22nd of March 2007 at http://water.europa.eu Thank you for your attention!