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• Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Groundwater)

  Drinking Water Groundwater Safeguard Zones (SgZs) are established around public water supplies where additional pollution control measures are needed. The Water Framework Directive requires that...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 9 July 2025

• Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water)

  Drinking Water Protected Areas (Surface Water) are defined by the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England & Wales) Regulations 2017 (or WFD Regulations) as locations where raw water...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 23 November 2022

• Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water)

  Drinking Water Safeguard Zones (Surface Water) are catchment areas that influence the water quality for their respective Drinking Water Protected Area (Surface Water). They are identified where the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 23 November 2022

• WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1

  WFD River Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polyline Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The river polylines were defined by using the...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 3 April 2012

• WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 1

  WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 1 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined in the Water Framework Directive as '…a body of standing inland surface water'....

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 January 2011

• National Framework for Water Resources: Current and future non-public water supply demands

  Current and future estimated (2050s) non-public water supply demands (including sectoral breakdown) under a range of National Framework modelling scenarios at national and water resource regional...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 12 June 2025

• Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies Cycle 3 Classification 2022

  This is a polygon dataset showing Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies, which was created to meet the requirements of the WFD. This dataset provides attribution relating to the 2022...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 March 2024

• Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies Cycle 3 Classification 2019

  This is a polygon dataset showing Water Framework Directive (WFD) Lake Water Bodies, which was created to meet the requirements of the WFD. This dataset provides attribution relating to the 2019...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 March 2024

• Water Framework Directive Cycle 2 Heavily Modified Water Body Use and Physical Modification

  A requirement of the Water Framework Directive is to report the physical modifications and uses that have resulted in a heavily modified water body. This dataset lists the physical modifications...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 2 Classification 2019

  WFD Lake Water Bodies Cycle 2 Classification 2019 is an alternate version of ‘WFD Lake Waterbodies Cycle 2’ with the addition of 2019 classification data and additional user attribution including...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 2 October 2020

• Sensitive Areas - Nitrates

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA251. This dataset is a shapefile showing the extent of UWWTD sensitive areas (nitrate). The Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC)...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 November 2013

• Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZ) 2021 Designations

  This dataset identifies Nitrate Vulnerable Zones for implementation in 2021.

  The designations are made by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Source Protection Zones [Merged]

  Source Protection Zones [Merged] have been created as public facing outlines where common boundaries and overlaps (based on zone number) have been removed. Source Protection Zones (SPZs) are...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 July 2025

• WFD Cycle 2 river hydrology classification

  This dataset is a subset of "WFD Classification Status Cycle 2" and contains classification data for hydrological regime. A river can only hold a healthy biological population if there is...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• WFD Lake Waterbodies Cycle 2

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA349. WFD Lake Waterbodies Cycle 2 is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing Water Framework Directive (WFD) attributes that have been collated as...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 October 2014

• Nitrate Sensitive Areas

  NSAs are carefully selected areas covering groundwater sources used to supply drinking water. In these areas incentives were offered to farmers to undertake significant changes in agricultural...

  • Published by: Natural England