Drinking Water Protected Areas for Groundwater in Wales
All groundwater bodies in Wales are designated as drinking water protected areas (DrWPAs). This aims to protect groundwater from over-abstraction and to prevent deterioration in groundwater quality that could increase the treatment of drinking water. Drinking Water Protected Areas are required to be identified under the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017. Within these drinking water protected areas we work with water companies to identify raw water sources that are ‘at risk’ of deterioration which would result in the need for additional treatment. In these areas we may establish Safeguard Zones where measures can be focused to protect groundwater that is abstracted for human consumption from deterioration in groundwater quality.
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Identification
- Identifier
- NRW_DS124992
- Alternative Title
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- Groundwater Drinking Water Protected Areas.lyr
- Metadata Language
- English
- Lineage
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Sourced from Groundwater Bodies which are available in WFD Groundwaterbodies Cycle 2 2015
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2022-04-28
Temporal Extent
- Begin date
- 2007-01-01
- End date
- 2022-04-28
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Extent
- Geographic Extent
- Wales (WLS)
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Distribution
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Geographic Information System
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Quality
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Sourced from Groundwater Bodies which are available in WFD Groundwaterbodies Cycle 2 2015
Keywords
Keywords
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Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-06-01
Keywords
Spatial Reference System
Content
Content Information
NRW Profile
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Constraints
Constraints
Limitations on Public Access and Use
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- no limitations
Access Constraints Text
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Access restrictions on this data have not been determined. It may contain sensitive information and therefore may be restricted under legislation. NRW may provide access to this dataset on request, however NRW may not release, publish or disseminate the data or derived products freely without further assessment.
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© CNC/NRW. Data may only be re-used externally under provision and in line with the terms of a NRW licence following an assessment of the data.
Metadata
Metadata
- File Identifier
- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313234393932 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-05-30T15:37:28.122Z
- Metadata Standard Name
- NRW
- Metadata Standard Version
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1.0