Overall status classifications for water bodies in England, derived from the Water Framework Directive's one-out-all-out methodology. The Environment Agency combined Chemical Status and Ecological Status/Potential to assign each water body a rating of High, Good, Moderate, Poor, or Bad. Both natural and artificial or heavily modified water bodies are included in this assessment.
Use Cases
- Monitor compliance with EU Water Framework Directive standards based on overall status classifications.
- Identify water bodies requiring remediation based on Poor or Bad overall status ratings.
- Compare the performance of natural versus artificial/heavily modified water bodies based on their assessed status.
- Analyze regional water quality trends based on aggregated status data across water bodies.
Strengths
- Assessment follows the standardized EU Water Framework Directive methodology.
- Includes both natural and artificial/heavily modified water body types.
- Classification is derived from combined ecological and chemical status data.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- Environment Agency
- Collection Method
- Derived from combining Chemical Status and Ecological Status/Potential assessments using a one-out-all-out methodology.
- Geography
- England