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The WFD requires Member States to designate separate groundwater bodies and ensure that each one achieves 'good chemical and quantitative status'. Good quantitative status can be achieved by ensuring that the available groundwater resource is not reduced by the long-term annual average rate of abstraction. In addition, impacts on surface water linked with groundwater or groundwater-dependent terrestrial ecosystems should be avoided, as should saline intrusions. The dashboards below provide an overview of the different results related to quantitative status.
In this page:
1. Groundwater bodies: Quantitative status [table]
2. Groundwater bodies: Quantitative status (2nd and 1st RBMP), by geological formation [chart]
3. Groundwater bodies: Quantitative status (2nd and 1st RBMP), by country [chart]
4. Groundwater bodies: Proportion failing to achieve good status, by RBD [map]
5. Groundwater bodies: Reasons for failure to achieve good quantitative status [overview chart]
Other WFD dashboards:
- Groundwater quantitative status
Disclaimer
Caution is advised when comparing Member States and when comparing the first and second RBMPs, as the results are affected by the methods Member States have used to collect data and often cannot be compared directly.
References
Further information is provided in a Draft guide to dashboards on delineation of water bodies, in chapter 1 of the EEA report European waters – assessment of status and pressures 2018, and section 2.2 Characterisation of surface waters of the WFD 2016 reporting guidance.