OVERVIEW OF EMISSIONS TO WATER EXISTING DATA COLLECTIONS

Eionet-emission of the EEA proposes a methodology that seek to answer the various needs especially by providing a data organisation, the main elements being the identification of the sources, the pollutants, and geographical and temporal aggregations. Integration of this in the Water Information System for Europe, whose objective is to include all existing data flows on water, will lead to major improvement of the whole picture. Progress on data quality as regards the various elements and especially the development of shared nomenclatures, are however needed to reach a good level of confidence.