European Environment Agency Waterbase
Comprehensive water quality database with pH, nutrients, hazardous substances across European waters
eea.europa.eu
At a glance
- Region
- Europe
- Coverage
- All EU member states
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2024
What's inside
- pH
- Nutrients
- Organic Matter
- Hazardous Substances
- Water Chemistry
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Hotspots and trends
Find where contamination is high and whether it is getting worse.
Because it has: Nutrients
- 02
Compliance checks
Compare samples against drinking water and discharge standards.
- 03
Sampling plans
Decide where to sample and treat first.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Risk maps
Predict contamination where no samples exist, from geology, land use and climate.
- 02
Anomaly alerts
Catch sudden spikes in sensor or lab data automatically.
- 03
From satellite
Estimate turbidity and chlorophyll in lakes and rivers from imagery.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
Machine-readable endpoint on eea.europa.eu
Licence: EEA open data policy
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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