Dashboards
The water dashboards use several interactive graphs to provide a general overview of large dams, wastewater treatment and water status monitoring in Austria and the status of Austrian running waters.
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Large dams
Dams are primarily used as run-of-river and storage hydropower plants, for flood retention and for snowmaking. Large dams are formed by barriers which are higher than 15 metres and/or which dam up a volume of water of more than 500,000 m³.
The dashboard shows information on the plant characteristics, data on electricity generation and the historical development of the large dams in Austria in aggregated form. The data was collected on the basis of the Water Rights Act 1959 (Federal Law Gazette No 215/1959 as amended) and the Reservoir Commission Ordinance 1985 (Federal Law Gazette No 222/1985 as amended:
Wastewater
The wastewater management dashboard provides an overview of the Austrian wastewater industry and its emissions, which are introduced from the municipal wastewater treatment plants into the waters.
The dashboard presents the most up-to-date data available collected in accordance with the Surface Water Bodies Emissions Register Ordinance (EMREG-OW, Federal Law Gazette II 2017/207 as amended) and shows data such as capacity utilisation and treatment performance of municipal wastewater treatment plants, as well as substance emissions and the sectors from which they originate.
Water condition monitoring
The running waters monitoring dashboard and the groundwater monitoring dashboard provide an overview of the investigations carried out in running waters and groundwater as part of the Water Condition Monitoring Ordinance (GZÜV, Federal Law Gazette II No 479/2006 as amended).
Austria's groundwater bodies have been monitored and assessed according to standardised national criteria since the 1960s, and running waters since the 1990s. The information in the dashboards includes details of the monitoring network and the analysed parameters.
Status of running waters
The dashboard on the status of Austrian running waters provides an overview of the contents of the National Watercourse Management Plans (NWMP). The interactive graphics provide information on the typology, pressures and status of water bodies in accordance with the National Water Management Plan Ordinance (NGPV, Federal Law Gazette II No 182/2022
All information is available for the three management plans (2009, 2015, 2021). In addition, the development of the ecological status or ecological potential over time from the 2009 NWMP to the current 2021 NWMP is presented.