Key figure of the week: water in France in 2022
Water in France in 2022
Source: SANDRE - 2022
The mission of the National Service for Water Data and Common Reference Frames Management (SANDRE) is to establish and make available the water data repository of the French Water Information System.
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Watercourse
Bodies of water
Hydrographic regions
Shellfish growing areas
*Metropolitan France and Overseas departments and regions of France
**Metropolitan France
OiEau has been in charge of the technical secretariat of SANDRE since its creation in 1992, now under the mandate of the French Biodiversity Agency.
The role of SANDRE consists in defining a common language and a framework for exchanging water data, as a fundamental element of the knowledge of this resource in France.
It provides technical solutions enabling water stakeholders to disseminate water data, making it usable and comparable.
Thus, the contributors massively feed this information system and share their data on water, aquatic environments and public water and sanitation services.
