Protected areas drinking water (lines) PHC 2022-2027

Protected areas intended for the production of water for human consumption (drinking water) represented as lines. This version of protected areas corresponds to that set out in the management plans for the third planning cycle (2022-2027). The dataset is the result of the integration of the information provided by the 25 Hydrographic Districts, in response to Article 13 of the Water Framework Directive. It includes information on the 14 plans approved in the Council of Ministers on 24 January 2023 (the 12 intercommunal basins, the Balearic Islands and Galicia Costa) and of the other plans still pending approval in the version of the latest available documents. These last plans are those of the 7 Demarcations of the Canary Islands, Catalonia and the 3 Andalusian demarcations. The structure of the data is specified by the reporting guidelines of the Water Framework Directive, which can be consulted at https://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/WFD/WFD_780_2022. This information meets the obligations of Article 13 of Directive 2000/60/EC and is therefore included in the list of ‘high value data’ sets as environmental water data, as set out in Regulation 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 establishing a list of specific high value data sets and modalities for publication and re-use, in the framework of Directive 2019/1024 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information.