England WFD River Water Body Catchments Cycle 3

England Water Framework Directive Water Body Catchments - Cycle 3 (2022) This is a polygon dataset as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Catchments are defined as an area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a series of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes to a particular point in the water course such as a river confluence. Since rivers are attributed with a unique water body identifier 'WB_ID' this dataset can be linked directly to the WFD river water body to which it relates. This dataset only contains the catchment shapes for river water bodies reported under the WFD. It does not include catchments for the small coastal streams and pieces of land that drain to coastal and estuarine waters without passing through a defined river water body.