Quality of Groundwater in Europe

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Quality of Groundwaterin Europe
Vienna, 22 June 2005 Andreas ScheidlederUmweltb
undesamt, Austria Member of the European Topic
Centre on Water (ETC/WTR)
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Content

• EEA mission
• Groundwater quality in Europe
• Indicator development, underlying data
• Dataflow (EIONET, Reportnet)
• Outlook - Integration into WISE

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EEA

• EEA mission
• The European Environment Agency is the EU body
  dedicated to providing sound, independent
  information on the environment.
• ... timely, targeted, relevant and reliable
  information to policy-makers and the public.
• http//www.eea.eu.int

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EEA indicators

• 37 policy-relevant core indicators stable and
  manageable basis for indicator reporting by EEA
• Used for