Workshop on Water Quantity Workshop on Water Quantity reportingreporting

Introduction to the EEA SoE water quantity data flows and data collection process

Skopje, the Former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia2013-01-10

George Karavokiros, Maggie Kossida, ETC/ICM

Products of EU level data collection Datasets - DatabasesVisualization of information

(WISE) ◦Maps◦Charts◦Statistical analyses

Various publications e.g. SoE reports

Indicators, water accounts

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Reliable background information forPolicy makersThe general public

Reporting ObligationsReporting Obligationshttp://rod.eionet.europa.eu/The Reporting Obligations Database (ROD)

contains records describing environmental reporting obligations that countries have towards DG environment, European marine conventions, Eurostat, OECD, UN, UNECE and EEA

Includes Legislations, Coordinating authority, Deadlines

Reporting Obligations for Greece:◦ 254 items on all environmental issues

69 items on water related issues 7 items on water related issues reporting to the EEA

State & Quantity of Water Resources (EWN-4/ WISE-SoE#3)Introduction to the EEA SoE water quantity data flows and data collection process - Skopje 10 January 2013 3

Reporting under WISEEEA - State of Environment (WISE-

SoE) ◦Annual reporting request◦Voluntary basis, through NRCs/NFPs◦Based on existing national monitoring

networksDG ENV - EU directives

◦WFD, UWWT, Nitrates◦Obligatory basis

OECD/EUROSTAT – JQ IWA◦through statistical agencies

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Roles in the EEA reporting Roles in the EEA reporting processprocess

Member states (MS)Data are derived from existing national and/or regional monitoring networksReport mostly annuallyETC/ICMMain responsible for the data dictionariesCollect the data from MSResolve data quality and other issues in cooperation with MSProvide quality assured data in the proper form to the EEAEuropean Environment Agency (EEA)Approve the deliveryDisseminate the information to policy-makers and the public

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Stages of WISE SoE data Stages of WISE SoE data reportingreporting

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Data collection and reporting

WorkingDBs

Data Repositories

Data validation and error flagging

Europeandatasets

Final QC/QA

Member Member statesstates

ETC/ICMETC/ICM

EEAEEA

Data storage inthe Working DBs

Data preparation and submission to the EEA

Data Dictiona

ry

ETC Data

Dictionary

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Water Quantity reporting Water Quantity reporting RoadmapRoadmap

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Development of SoE#3 reporting sheet (approved by Water Directors, 2008)

Test Data Exchange: identifying reporting resources and capabilities, opening the dialog–EIONET Workshop (June 2008)

Streamlining with EUROSTAT to avoid double-reporting

Data Manual (June 2009) opening the discussion towards common definitions and harmonisation

Optimising the reporting process-Adopting flexibility. 2009 onwards stable WISE WQ data flow

2009 development and launch of the WQ Reporting Tool

2010 update of the Tool with new functionalities, pre-filing of the previously reported data, beta version of the WQ DREAMS online application (http://wq-dreams.eu/ )

2012 was the 4th year of reporting (deadline was 2012-10-31)Further streamlining with EUROSTAT, data transfer and pre-filling the JQ IW

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““Traditional” approach for data Traditional” approach for data reportingreporting

The traditional approach is based on simple Excel sheets

Advantages◦ Well known tool◦ Wide range of interfaces

Disadvantages◦ Not the appropriate format for

representing complex data structures and interrelations

◦ No data quality testing at the source◦ No online help◦ Limitations of MS-Excel

Such approach often leads to inappropriate working database design

CDR

EIONET NRC

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Water Quantity reporting Water Quantity reporting approachapproach (1) (1)

Numerous parameters related to different geographical entities (stations, reservoirs, RBDs etc.)

Combination of point and areal dataTime series and non time series dataWide range of temporal (annual,

monthly, seasonal, daily) and spatial scales (Country, RBD, Sub-Unit, NUTS)

Streamlining with the Eurostat Joint Questionnaire on inland waters (JQ IW)

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The WQ approach (2)The WQ approach (2)

1. Distribution of a custom data reporting application

2. Transmission of data files in XML format

3. Data entry application WISE-SoE Reporting

• Data check• Data preparation• Statistical analysis• I/O routines

Data Entry Application

Database I/O

File Import/Export

XML data file

1

2

EIONETNRC

• User interface • Constraints• Validation rules• Bulk data import• Online documentation• Reporting summaries

WQ Reporting Tool

Database

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The WQ approach The WQ approach (3)(3)

ETCDD

Web/ApplicationServer

Internet

CSV file

WQ DREAMS

XML data file

EIONETNRC

Working Database

WQ Reporting Tool

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Country benchmarking results from Country benchmarking results from 20112011

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http://www.eionet.europa.eu/dataflows/pdf2012/benchmarking?year=2011

EWN4: Water quantity scorEWN4: Water quantity scoreses 20112011

http://www.eionet.europa.eu/dataflows/pdf2011/flow_summary?flow=EWN4

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Statistics WISE SoE data Statistics WISE SoE data request 2012request 2012

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Water quantity Data from 27 countries

Geographical point entities 8371◦ Large Items 33◦ Rain gauge stations 3085◦ Reservoirs 213◦ Stream flow stations 1951◦ Wells 3089

Time series 10986◦ Groundwater level 3346◦ Reservoir inflow 196◦ Reservoir outflow 201◦ Stream flow 2225

Total number of data records1845581

• TS with daily time step

1510

• TS with monthly time step

2777

• TS with seasonal time step

424

• TS with annual time step

6275

Sites related to WQ reportingSites related to WQ reporting Reporting obligations : EEA-European Environment Agency [Water]

http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations?country=-1&id=&filter=GO&issue=15&client=3

Reporting obligation for: State & Quantity of Water Resources (EWN-4)http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/184

WISE SoE data request 2012http://icm.eionet.europa.eu/announcements/wise_soe_data_2012/

WQ Reporting Toolhttp://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-eionet-freshwater/library/wise-soe-reporting-2012/water-quantity-reporting-2012

Detailed criteria for scoring (EWN4: Water quantity)http://www.eionet.europa.eu/dataflows/pdf2012/criteria#EWN4

EIONET Central Data Repository (CDR)http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/

Waterbase - Water Quantityhttp://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/waterbase-water-quantity-6

WQ DREAMShttp://wq-dreams.eu/

Stream flow stations on Maphttp://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/interactive/water-quantity-location-of-streamflow

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