The launch of the public WISE viewer and website - 111 days to launch -

1. The launch of the public WISE viewer and website - 111 days to launch - Stefan Jensen EU water directors meeting, Saarisälkaa, FI 30.11.2006

2. Key WISE IT system principles • A joint development initially by DG Environment, Eurostat, the JRC and EEA stepwise opening up to other partners • Tasks allocated to all partners • Distributed system architecture • 5 year WISE planning and management • Overcome the seperation between SoE and regulatory reporting • Currently guided by a set of groups and processes under the WfD (MS participation)

3. What do we develop: • A public website (http://water.europa.eu ) offering information on European water issues incl. data and themes - EEA water data centre policy – DG Environment projects – RTD/JRC • A public map viewer providing access to data displaying European datasets available under WISE integrating those datasets following predefined ”expert queries” and thematic maps

4. The draft data website Background of WISE Viewer VI. Water Status III. Administrative items SW Status Competent Authorities GW Status Ecoregions VII. Monitoring IV. Water Bodies IX. Resources VIII. Protected Areas V. Water Pollution FAQs Point Sources Glossary Diffuse Sources Links Message Board Disclaimer I. Welcome Screen Quick Information Background Reporting obligations Objectives Assessment reports Quality Elements River Basin Districts II. MAP Viewer EEA EIONET Background Surface Waters Monitoring Sites Groundwater Surface Waters Artificial Water Bodies Groundwater Heavily Modified Water Bodies Protected Areas Overview Drinking Water Overview Recreational Water Economical Species Nutrient Sensitive Prevention Strategies Bird Protection -means topic has spatial data content i.e. is linked to MAP Viewer Habitat Protection

5. Which data will it contain at the launch: Thematic data • EIONET water data water quality data from monitoring stations on rivers and lakes • WFD Art.3 data river basins, river basin districts and international river basin districts competent authorities large rivers and lakes main rivers and lakes OR Teleatlas data - where Art3. data is not available / too difficult to integrate • Derived from WFD Art.5 data waterbodies at risk heavily modified waterbodies (if delivered and quality assured) • European bathing water data • Data from EU15 countries reporting under the Urban Waste Water Directive agglomerations, sensitive areas (where useful) • Intercalibration (simplified)

6. Which data will it contain at the launch: Expert queries e.g. based on the full SoE data as in EIONET water • Water qualitydata in rivers, lakes and groundwater (overview) • Pollutants (nitrates, ammonium, BOD5, phosphorus) in rivers and lakes – latest year and timeseries • Summary of monitoring stations by catchments size (pending) • Relation between nitrate concentration in rivers and agriculture • River basin districts, competent authorities, mainrivers and lakes ... Thematic maps e.g. Nitrates from monitoring aggregated to Rivers Basins Districts Integrated data in support of an Ecosystem approach

9. Which data will it contain at the launch: Background data(optional for viewing) Teleatlas rivers and lakes Digital elevation model CCM2 Corine Landcover CLC 2000 land-use data Image 2000 (satellite data)

10. Where we are on technology: • Distributed node technology developed and partly applied (“multi-connector”) • XML based communication between modules developed and enabled • Map viewer draft version available - map viewing and navigation (INSPIRE service) - data query function - simple graphs - simple time series In 2007 and 2008 further INSPIRE type services will be developed: Metadata catalogues Data downloading functions (determined by WISE data policy)

11. Map viewer user profiles

12. Water directors are informed and asked for comments Please try out the application from 22nd of March 2007 at http://water.europa.eu Thank you for your attention!