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This section is dedicated to the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and presents the results on the status of groundwater and surface waters in Europe - based on the third River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) - the progress achieved between the first, second and third RBMP cycles and the main pressures still causing the failure to achieve good status. The results are derived from data reported by EU countries for the implementation of the Directve, and provide an overview at EU, Member State and River Basin District (RBD) level.

Table of contents

Surface waters ecological status

Ecological status by Country

Biological quality elements

Hydromorphological quality elements

Physicochemical quality elements

River Basin Specific Pollutants

Surface waters chemical status

Chemical status by country

Priority substances causing failure to good chemical status

Ecological and Chemical status

Groundwaters quantitative status

Quantitative status by country

Quantitative status by geological formation

Groundwater bodies at risk of failing to achieve good quantitative status

Groundwaters chemical status

Chemical status by country

Chemical status by geological formation

Groundwater bodies at risk of failing to achieve good chemical status

Groundwater pollutants

Pressures and impacts

Surface water significant impacts

Groundwater significant impacts

Characterisation of water bodies

Heavily Modified Water Bodies and Artificial Water Bodies

Surface water bodies physical alterations

Disclaimer

The charts, tables and maps about the 3rd River Basin Management Plans show the data of Countries that so far have reported electronically to the EEA for this third cycle and included in the "EU 27": Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain.
Norway has also reported.