This shapefile defines some drinking water infrastructure quality indicators by NUTS2. For the comparison of water infrastructure quality over europe it is recommended to use the variable "Water Not piped population 2005 per area (km2)". This indicator has been defined to counteract the limitations to reporting the standard of drinking water infrastructure across Europe as described below.
There is an inherent problem when looking at reported drinking water quality indicators for areas of the developed world such as Europe at national or regional level. For these developed countries indicators often have a small variation and percentages are mainly all close to 100%. This is because these indicators recorded by organisations such as WHO, UNICEF etc have been designed for reporting at a global level or with a focus to the less developed regions of the world. Where the problem of Drinking water quality is most acute.
Though water quality in Europe is good when compared many other regions of the world. There is a variation of quality over the continent, which can have a significant effwect on the potential spread of water-borne disease such as Cryptosporidium. In an attempt to report this variance in water quality over Europe the EDENext DMT have attempted to downscale existing recorded drinking water statistics from the WHO/UNICEF combine them with data on rural and Urban population density data and report the data at NUTS2.
The population data used was sourced from the ESPON 2013 database and were Status Quo population values reported at NUTS2. This data was downscaled by applying these figures to a 1km raster of population distribution derived from the GRUMP project data. The population was then identified as either Rural or Urban according to the GRUMP Urban/rural mask. Where values were not available from ESPON, WHO/UNICEF national population figgures and projections figures were used, this is true for Turkey, Macedonia, Croatia.
There are some important assumptions inherant in the methodology used to create this data:
- The quality of the Water network remains as is (improvements or degredation are not accounted for)
- Rural areas remain rural and Urban areas remain Urban despite any projected increase or decrease in population.
- Water quality data used is reported at national level and split between rural an urban, so no true variation across countries is accounted for. The method only calculates variation related to proportion area of rural/urban within each NUTS2 region.
Location: Datasets can be downloaded from the EDENext Data Archive
Category: Found in Utility and governmental services
Download Packages: Downscaled Improved Water statistics for Europe at NUTS2 2005, 2030, 2050
A list of key variables in this dataset are listed below...
POP05U 2005 ESPON Population Urban (Using GRUMP Urban Rural extent)
POP05R 2005 ESPON Population Rural (Using GRUMP Urban Rural extent)
POP30U 2030 ESPON Population Urban (Using GRUMP Urban Rural extent)
POP30R 2030 ESPON Population Rural (Using GRUMP Urban Rural extent)
POP50U 2050 ESPON Population Urban (Using GRUMP Urban Rural extent)
POP50R 2050 ESPON Population Rural (Using GRUMP Urban Rural extent)
IWPOP05 Improved Water Population 2005
IWPOP30 Improved Water Population 2030
IWPOP50 Improved Water Population 2050
IWPOP05PC Improved Water Population 2005 %
IWPOP30PC Improved Water Population 2030 %
IWPOP50PC Improved Water Population 2050 %
IWPPOP05 Improved Water (Piped) Population 2005
IWPPOP30 Improved Water (Piped) Population 2030
IWPPOP50 Improved Water (Piped) Population 2050
IWPPOP05PC Improved Water (Piped) Population 2005 %
IWPPOP30PC Improved Water (Piped) Population 2030 %
IWPPOP50PC Improved Water (Piped) Population 2050 %
IWOPOP05 Improved Water (Other) Population 2005
IWOPOP30 Improved Water (Other) Population 2030
IWOPOP50 Improved Water (Other) Population 2050
IWOPOP05PC Improved Water (Other) Population 2005 %
IWOPOP30PC Improved Water (Other) Population 2030 %
IWOPOP50PC Improved Water (Other) Population 2050 %
IWPCU Improved Water % Urban (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWPPCU Improved Water (Piped) % Urban (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWOPCU Improved Water (Other) % Urban (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWPCR Improved Water % Rural (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWPPCR Improved Water (Piped) % Rural (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWOPCR Improved Water (Other) % Rural (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWPCT Improved Water % Total (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWPPCT Improved Water (Piped) % Total (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
IWOPCT Improved Water (Other) % Total (National figures from WHO/UNICEF)
wnppop05 Water Not piped population 2005
wnppop30 Water Not piped population 2030
wnppop50 Water Not piped population 2050
wnppop05pa Water Not piped population 2005 per area (km2)
wnppop30pa Water Not piped population 2030 per area (km2)
wnppop50pa Water Not piped population 2050 per area (km2)
areakm2 Area Km2
urbanpc Percent of urban NUTS2 area defined by GRUMP
ruralpc Percent of rural NUTS2 area defined by GRUMP
These data are derived from the following sources:
- NUTS 2 Population Figures from ESPON 2013 database (as previously quoted in report: http://www.espon.eu/main/Menu_ScientificTools/ESPON2013Database/
- GRUMP 1km population layer - used to downscale ESPON population to 1km): http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/
- GRUMP 1km Urban Rural extent: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/
- WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation: http://www.wssinfo.org/data-estimates/table/
- World Population Prospects, the 2010 Revision - Total population Both sexes: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/Excel-Data/population.htm
