Northern Ireland River Basin Districts Defined Under the Water Framework Directive

River Basin Districts in Northern Ireland are defined under Article 2 (15) of the European Water Framework Directive. The dataset is published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. Its last recorded update was scheduled for July 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping water management boundaries based on the defined River Basin Districts.
• Analyzing water policy implementation based on the Water Framework Directive's administrative units.
• Integrating spatial data for environmental reporting based on the official district definitions.

Strengths

• Data is defined by a specific legal instrument: Article 2 (15) of the Water Framework Directive.
• Has a clear and permissive license: OGL-UK-3.0.
• A future update is scheduled for 2026-07-08.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its Northern Ireland scope.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Legally defined administrative boundaries under the Water Framework Directive.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:59.117084

Geography

Northern Ireland