EEA tool for mapping Europe's water systems

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(2013), "EEA tool for mapping Europe's water systems", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 24 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2013.08324aaa.013

EEA tool for mapping Europe's water systems

Article Type: News from the net From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 24, Issue 1.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has released a comprehensive series of map layers showing hydrological features in the whole of continental Europe west of the Urals, the Caucasus region and the Tigris-Euphrates river system. The EEA Catchments and Rivers Network System (ECRINS) project aims to produce a detailed picture of the influences on Europe's water systems, so as to improve the understanding and management of water resources in order to ease the pressure on Europe's freshwater supplies.

Consisting of multiple layers, the map provides information from the last ten years on a number of hydrological features, such as lakes, dams and monitoring stations. The map tool is dynamic, allowing further layers such as population and agriculture to be combined with information already catalogued through ECRINS project. Ready-to-use data from the project are available from the EEA web site, along with a technical report on the aims, methodology and general workings of the ECRINS tool: www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/ecrins-map-project-pinpoints-water