Identification

Title

UK Biodiversity Indicator B7, Surface water status

Abstract

This spreadsheet is the underlying data for the biodiversity indicator B7, Surface water status. Surface waters with good status support a diverse assemblage of aquatic invertebrates, fish, mammals and birds. The EU Water Framework Directive aims to improve and integrate the way water bodies are managed throughout Europe. Member States aim to reach good chemical and ecological status in inland and coastal waters by 2027 at the latest. The UK is striving to improve and protect the condition of the water environment, and objectives to improve and protect each water body have been set, as well as measures defined to ensure the objectives are met. The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is an important mechanism for assessing and managing the water environment in the EU, through a six yearly cycle of planning and implementing measures to protect and improve the water environment. The indicator shows the percentage of surface water bodies in each status class and the change in the percentage of water bodies in the UK awarded a good or high surface water status class under the WFD between 2010 and 2015. Over 10,300 water bodies were assessed in each year of the indicator; including rivers, canals, lakes, estuaries and coastal waters. This is one of a suite of 24 UK biodiversity indicators published by JNCC on behalf of Defra; the latest publication date was 19 January 2016 - for indicator B7 the latest data are for 2015. The supporting technical document details the methodology used to create the indicator.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4250

name: page-4250

Unique resource identifier

code

36360cb7-5c21-4d6f-a57f-19f0b0c48ec0

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4250 Data set supported by a Word document (B7 - Surface water status.docx) containing all of the website text, and two jpeg images (UKBI2015_B7i_FinalV2.jpg, UKBI2015_B7ii_FinalV2.jpg).

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Freshwater

UK Biodiversity

Evidence

Biodiversity

indicator

surface water

water framework directive

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.65

East bounding longitude

2.0

North bounding latitude

61.0

South bounding latitude

49.77

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2009

End position

2015

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-19

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Source: Department of the Environment Northern Ireland, Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Microsoft Excel for Windows

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement "Contains public sector information from the Department of the Environment Northern Ireland, Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, and Scottish Environment Protection Agency, licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0"

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language