Northern Ireland Water Abstraction and Impoundment Licensing

Northern Ireland Environment Agency regulates water abstraction and impoundment under the 2006 and 2007 licensing regulations. The dataset likely contains licensed sites where groundwater or surface water abstraction exceeds 10 cubic meters per day. It is designed for visualization in web maps, analysis in dashboards, and is downloadable in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Mapping licensed water abstraction points based on geospatial location.
• Monitoring compliance with the 10 cubic meters per day regulatory threshold.
• Analyzing the distribution of surface water versus groundwater abstraction sites.
• Integrating licensing data into environmental dashboards for regulatory oversight.

Strengths

• Available under the Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0), permitting reuse.
• Cross-platform presence on UK and EU open data portals indicates official importance.
• Data is explicitly described as downloadable and suitable for web map visualization and dashboard analysis.

Limitations

• Column names and schema are unknown, limiting detailed understanding of the data structure.
• Row count, dataset size, and author information are not provided.
• A future 'last updated' date (2026-04 15) on one platform conflicts with typical data freshness.

Provenance

Source

Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), published via OpenDataNI.

Collection Method

Collected through the regulatory licensing process for water abstraction and impoundment.

Time Range

Regulations enacted in 2006 and amended in 2007; specific data coverage period is null.

Freshness

2026-04-15 14:21:52.968509

Geography

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.