1. Water Information System for Europe
WG F meeting
16 April 2008
Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, WFD Team

2. Contents What is WISE? WISE Implementation Plan (WISE IP)
WISE Structure, principles
Organisation of reporting under EU water legislation within WISE community
WISE construction phase: current developments and next steps
Success factors
WISE viewer - examples

3. Purposes for reporting
Common vision by 2010 and +
Information Users
Policy
Effectiveness
Public
M S
EEA
Intern.
Conv.
Useful
Information
COM
SoE
Trends An.
Data treatment
/ aggregation
Compliance
checking
Member States
Data
Purposes for reporting
Drivers for data collection

4. WISE concept “Development of a new, comprehensive, shared
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”

5. WISE aims
Efficient management of all water-related information at EU level
Coherence between various reporting mechanisms and needs
Access to information / data for various purposes and needs
Based on INSPIRE principles

6. Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission
WISE calendar
2003: development / vision of WISE agreed by WDs
2005: WISE Implementation plan agreed by Go4
22 March 2007: WISE viewer as a gateway of information access on water
internet access & ‘single data entry’ portal
: WISE construction phase
by 2015: WISE as distributed system
Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission

7. How we are developing WISE ?
Principles: to work on informal basis through Common Implementation strategy (CIS) for WFD + extension of it to the other EU water legislation and reporting streams on water
WISE community:
Water Directors => SCG
=> WG D =====> (see next slide)
=> WGs and/or Committees for other EU water Directives: BWD, UWWTD, NiD, DWD, etc.
WISE Steering group (Group of 4)
=> WISE technical group

8. Structure WFD reporting
WISE Steering Group
(DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA)
Working Group D
Reporting
WISE technical group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA & experts)
Drafting Group
Compliance
DG Env
Drafting Group
State of the
Environment/Trends
EEA
WISE-GIS workshop

9. How we are developing WISE ?
WISE OUTPUT
Practical steps:
WISE INPUT
Visualisation of reported data
Reporting obliga-tions (What? When?)
Reporting sheets (further specs)
Tools for data entry
including QA/QC checks
Compliance checking (legal)
Lead: Thematic Working Group
Consultation: Reporting WG
Lead: Reporting WG + Thematic WG (if needed)
Technical development: GIS experts + WISE technical group

10. Next steps
2007/8: Integration of ‘old’ / remaining directives (Urban Water Water Treatment, Nitrates, Bathing, Drinking water)
2008: Interlinks with ESTAT/OECD Joint questionnaire on inland waters (water statistics)
From 2008: Concept for WISE as distributed data management system
: new legislation
Floods directive
Marine protection strategy directive
Links to EPER/ e-PRTR reporting

11. WISE implementation plan

12. Advantages and capacities
Electronic reporting for uploading data & information in a structured way
Quicker feedback on validation of quality of reported data (QA/QC)
Technical possibility for data exchange & interoperability
Interactive maps with zooming & searching possibilities
Possibility of integrated analysis at various scales
Enabling an integrated view on pressures & impacts

13. WISE in the wider context
Water
WISE
Environmental Reporting
INSPIRE & SEIS
Air
Soil
Agri-
culture
Climate change
Others …
WFD
UWWTD
NiD
BWD
DWD
MSD
FlD
SoE
JQ-IW
EU water legislation and other EU reporting activities on water

14. WISE viewer: WFD

15. From European level to stations

16. WISE: reporting of WFD monitoring programmes (Art.8)

17. WISE viewer: Bathing Water

18. From piecemeal approach to data integration in WISE
New ways of communication!
... from tabular data to interactive maps ...
New integrative viewing and assessment options
First time supporting the themes:
Information on My Riverbasin and competent authorities in MS
European water bodies at risk and / or highly modified
Water quality (nitrates, phosphates, Ammonium, BOD) in rivers and lakes
Urban Waste water treatment
European bathing water status
Multiple spatial reference data (Corine Landcover, Image2000,
Digital Elevation Models, GISCO data, Teleatlas layers)

19. WISE public viewer: e.g. information from EIONET in WISE
Finland & Bothnian Bay
River stations
Gauging stations
Lake stations
Marine stations

20. From European level to stations
Nitrate levels at rivers stations
Weser

21. Policy relevant trends: Trends on total ammonia

22. Urban waste water treatment
Tertiary treatment (nutrient removal)
Secondary treatment
Primary treatment
No treatment
Zoom

23. Urban waste water treatment
Tertiary treatment (nutrient removal)
Secondary treatment
Primary treatment
No treatment

24. Integration of Urban Wastewater and Bathing Water data

25. Outlook of future challenges
Complete integration of all water-related directives
Develop further the input and output functionalities
Develop WISE as a distributed system (INSPIRE)
Establish links to the national information systems

26. Thank you for your attention
Thank you for your attention