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Facility data · coverage maturity

What is known, unknown and still missing.

Every country/territory and facility class is measured separately. “Complete” requires at least 95% of an authoritative denominator plus recurring refresh; no denominator means never 100%.

Validating current coverage

Rechecking source rights and the current public facility state…

Global source and rights ledger

42 facility sources classified

All 249 ISO jurisdictions exist in the ledger: 47 are at C1 and 202 remain C0. A global candidate layer never marks a country as researched by itself.

approved_publish · 6approved_candidate · 8pending · 24blocked · 4expired · 0

83 / 5,229 country/facility-class pairs have a country-scoped source; all others remain explicit C0 gaps.

SourceRightsCountriesClassesLead denominator
Germany Thru municipal wastewater treatment plants
germany-uba-thru-wastewater
pendingDEmunicipal_wastewaterunknown
Spain MITECO urban wastewater treatment plants Q2023
spain-miteco-uwwtd-plants
approved_candidateESmunicipal_wastewater2,174
Italy ISTAT Census of Water for Civil Use
italy-istat-urban-water-census
pendingITmunicipal_wastewaterunknown
Netherlands UWWTD wastewater treatment plants EU2024
netherlands-rws-uwwtd
approved_publishNLmunicipal_wastewater323
Flanders UWWTD wastewater treatment plants
belgium-vmm-uwwtd-flanders
pendingBEmunicipal_wastewaterunknown
Switzerland municipal wastewater treatment plant address list
switzerland-bafu-ara-address-list
pendingCHmunicipal_wastewater700
Austria wastewater treatment plants above 2,000 PE
austria-bmluk-uwwtd-plants
pendingATmunicipal_wastewater631
Denmark PULS point-source wastewater register
denmark-environment-portal-puls
pendingDKmunicipal_wastewaterunknown
Sweden Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
sweden-naturvardsverket-prtr
pendingSEmunicipal_wastewaterunknown
Norway Miljodirektoratet wastewater facilities layer
norway-miljodirektoratet-wastewater
approved_candidateNOmunicipal_wastewater2,511

Lead denominators describe likely source volume only. They are not authoritative facility denominators and do not produce a coverage percentage unless the source ledger explicitly records a denominator definition.

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Facility coverage ledger · WaterAtlas