EMODnet Human Activities, Desalination, Plants

The database on Desalination plants in the EU was created in 2021 by Cogea srl for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the harmonization of a dataset provided by GWI DesalData. The dataset provides spatial information (point) on the centroid of the municipality where a given plant is located. It is available for viewing and download on EMODnet - Human Activities web portal ( https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities) and will be updated every year. The dataset covers the following countries: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guernsey, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine. Where available, each point has the following attributes: site code (ID), Location Name, Country, Position Source, Commune Name, NUTS code (NUTS 3 ID), Latitude, Longitude. A relational table provides further information for each desalination plant where data are available: Location Type, Project, Capacity (m3/d), Size, Units, Unit Size (m3/d), Technology, Feedwater, Plant Type, Award Date, Online Date, Plant Status, Customer Type, Industry Type, Customer, Holding Company, Plant Owner. More plant-specific information is available in the original dataset.

Date (Publication): 2021-09-15

Date (Revision): 2021-08-30

Date (Creation): 2021-08-30

Citation identifier: EMODnet_HA_Desalination_Plants_20210830

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Cogea srl	lfalco@cogea.it fmarolla@cogea.it	Author
GWI DesalData	nrumpaisum@globalwaterintel.com	Resource provider
Eurostat - GISCO	ESTAT-INSTITUTIONAL-SUPPORT@ec.europa.eu	Resource provider
ESRI		Resource provider
GeoNames	info@geonames.org	Resource provider

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021

Desalination plant

GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021

building

GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021

food, drinking water

GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021

industry

GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021

water

Use limitation: Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and primary sources) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website.

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language: English

Distribution format

Name	Version
unknown	unknown

Transfer size: 0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities	EMODnet Human Activities
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/18d9daa1-eee4-4380-a2d0-fd20e4b47081/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Desalination_Plants_20210830.zip	EMODnet_HA_Desalination_Plants_20210830.zip
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?	desalination
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?	emodnet:desalination

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date: 2021-08-30

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The EMODnet dataset on Desalination plants in the EU is based on an existing dataset provided by GWI DesalData. The geographic coordinates of plant locations provided by the GWI dataset were subjected to quality control. Coordinates were deemed correct when: (i) the original location name matched the name of the municipality polygon that contained the point, polygons being provided by an official provider (i.e., GISCO); (ii) the original location was confirmed to lie within a GISCO polygon. In such cases, we georeferenced the location to the centroid of the GISCO polygon that contained the original point. When a point fell outside the GISCO limits, we either assigned coordinates from a different source (i.e., ESRI) or kept the GWI DESALDATA coordinates (e.g., offshore plants). When the coordinates appeared incorrect, we georeferenced the location to the country capital. If the point was located on an island, we georeferenced the location to the county seat. Sarajevo was assigned coordinates provided by a different source (i.e., GeoNames). Plant-specific information was related to each location point by a one-to-many type of relationship and summarized by a relational table.