Swiss National Surface Water Quality Monitoring (NAWA)
Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) NAWA monitoring programme covering pesticides, nutrients, pharmaceuticals, and priority micropollutants in rivers and lakes with station-level time series.
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At a glance
- Region
- Switzerland (Europe)
- Coverage
- National (rivers + lakes)
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
What's inside
- Pesticides
- Pharmaceuticals
- Nutrients
- Water Quality
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
Irrigation scheduling
Decide when and how much to irrigate.
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
Field-scale ET
Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.
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